32 THROUGH STABLE AND SADDLE-ROOM. 



variably so constructed. The stall-post is of iron, 

 and fits into a slot in an iron plate fixed to the 

 floor and into a groove of wood fixed to the ceiling". 

 From this post to the wall on the manger side of 

 the stable there is a bent iron beading, which is 

 grooved so as to admit the heads of the partition- 

 boards. The tails of the latter are fixed into an 

 iron grooved plate on the floor, running from the 

 stall-post to the wall. The ends of the iron 

 beading are mortised into an upright post fixed 

 against the wall at one end, and the other end 

 drops into a slot cut in the stall-post, and the 

 whole is bolted with a hinged iron plate in the 

 stall-post, which shuts flat into it and fixes the 

 head of the beading. This style of partition is 

 very easily removed and replaced, and the boards, 

 being tongued and grooved, can be taken apart and 

 either cleaned or packed away, as may be required. 

 If either of them ffet broken bv kickine*-, it can be 

 easily replaced by any ordinary carpenter. These 

 boards should, however, not be made of deal ; 

 beech, oak, or pitch-pine are better, and less 

 liable to splinter, and though perhaps rather more 

 expensive at first, are more durable, and conse- 

 quently more economical in the long-run. 



We now come to the consideration of mangers 

 and racks. There is nowadays but one material 



