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A design of the Author's for bedding posts in concrete will Fixing posts, 

 be found on Plate 15 (Fig. i), open spaces being left in the 

 casting for the purpose of working the concrete into the cavity 

 in the base, and thus forming a key which holds it firmly in 

 position, as the concrete hardens into a solid mass. The 

 system of setting the posts in concrete is not so general as that 

 in which they are secured to a stone, but is to be strongly re- 

 commended, as all the ironwork should be fixed before the 

 paving is laid, and it is an easy matter to adjust these posts 

 when there is nothing but the concrete to deal with. Portland 

 or hard York stone is most frequently used for the purpose. 

 The stone is partially bedded in or beneath the concrete 

 (Plate 15, Fig. 2), the posts being secured by a flange fastened 

 by Lewis bolts to the stone, and leaded. Although this method 

 secures to posts a perfectly immovable position, so long as the 

 stone remains sound and in its place, it has the disadvantages 

 which often attend the letting of iron into stone, viz. causing it to 

 split from corrosion of the iron, or through frost. Of course, if 

 it is under concrete it is safer, and with the addition of the pave- 

 ment above, it is not likely to be reached, in a stable^ by the frost. 



I^oose box partitions are made like those of stalls when the Loose box 

 boxes are grouped in the same building with them, and differ Partitions. 

 only in the top rail, which is horizontal instead of being ramped, 

 as shown on Plate 16 (Fig. 3). Tastes vary as to the depth of 

 the grating forming the upper portion of a loose box enclosure, 

 but it should be made lower in the door and front than in the 

 divisional partitions, to give the attendant an uninterrupted 

 view of the interior ; in the former it varies betwen 2 and 4 feet. 

 Where it adjoins a stall, by the introduction of an inverted 

 ramp, as shown on Plate 17 (Fig. 3), the middle rail of the 

 loose box is made to correspond in height and curve to the top 

 rail of the stall division, and in this case the ironwork is about 

 2 feet 8 inches in its greatest depth at the heel-post, and about 

 6 inches at the head of the stall ; the woodwork below having 

 a minimum of 4 feet 8 inches. 



