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For the use of the stable itself, the following are 

 also requisite : 



Birch or whalebone brooms. 



Stable fork. 



Shovel. 



Wheelbarrow. 



Dung-basket. 



Stable lantern. 



Ditto buckets. 



Corn-measures. 



Ditto sieves. 

 Now, I propose taking all these in the order in 

 which I have enumerated them, and will endeavour 

 to explain, for the use of the reader, how to purchase 

 good articles, giving, as nearly as I can, the average 

 price of each one. 



Brushes vary as much in quality as any article 

 well-modi can. A orood brush will wear out at 



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least two bad ones, and it is impossible to get a 

 good one at a low price. Firstly, because good 

 bristles are dear, and good work is never cheap. 

 If the reader will take the trouble to examine a 

 good brush, he will see that it is composed of a 

 number of small tufts of bristles, which are doubled 

 through holes in a wooden back, and that the back 

 of the brush is covered over with a thin piece of 

 wood in order to protect the bristle-ends on that 



