86 STABLE BUILDING AND STABLE FITTING. 



Open boilers. 



Girth 

 stretchers. 



can be altered into a dose fire at will ; they are also made for 

 large rooms with a boiler for supplying hot water for gruel, &c., 

 and separate provision for feeding hot water pipes for heating 

 purposes. 



In tramway and other stables of the kind, hot water for all 

 purposes is obtained by means of an open boiler built in 

 brick in cement, in a room set aside for the attendants, and 

 used by the visiting veterinary surgeon, generally situated 

 somewhere convenient to the loose boxes, as shown on Plates 

 37 and 50. In these cases the harness brackets are fixed 

 in the stables. They consist of a deal board 5 feet long, about 

 12 inches wide, and \\ inch thick, chamfered at the edges 

 and fitted with two stout ash pegs, two iron harness brackets, 

 and two rein hooks. 



Girth stretchers are very necessary articles for preserving the 

 shape of the girths whilst they are drying, and are principally 

 made of two patterns ; of varnished wood, having straps for 

 six girths, as shown on Fig. 57, or hinged, and of enamelled 

 iron, made in the form of a screen for standing before an open 

 grate, as in Fig. 58. 



Fig. 57. 



Fig. 58. 



Saddle airers. Saddle airers are also required for keeping the saddle open 

 and in its proper shape whilst being dried before the fire or 

 out of doors. They can be obtained painted, enamelled, or 

 covered with leather. Fig. 59 shows a wooden frame for this 



