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STABLE ECONOMY- 



cvaporates and mingles with the air. These stables of course 

 are always damp and foul. Their inhabitants are liable to 

 more than their share of disease at all times, and especially 

 when an unhealthy season prevails. 



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Fig. 2 gives a view of the stable erected by the late Mr. 

 James Donaldson. The breadth excepted, it is a perfect 

 model for a stable of two stalls. One half of the stall floor 

 is laid with brick ; the other half is covered by a sinole slab 

 of freestone, which is grooved longitudinally and transversely, 

 and perforated at each intersection of the grooves. The per- 

 forations conduct the urine to an under-ground drain, which 

 can be cleaned in its whole extent by lifting the channel- 

 grating. This seems to be a much better contrivance than 

 the iron-grating, since it is more extensive, less costly, less 

 likely to give or to receive injury, and requiring no declivity 

 on any part of the stall. In other respects this stable is very 

 neat. It has a boiler behind the inside stall ; a cupboard, a 

 window well placed, the mangers and travis moveable. It 

 is only twelve feet wide ; if copied, the gangway should be 

 three feet broader. In this cut, the manger is shown too low 

 and the rack too high. 



Declivity of the Stall. — The ordinary mode of draining tlie 

 stall is to make it slope from the head to a gutter, about ten 

 feet from the manger. The inclination varies from two to 

 three inches on the ten feet. This has been objected to, but, 



