9 o THROUGH STABLE AND SADDLE-ROOM. 



not allow a passage to intervene between the 

 stable and saddle-room, if the door of the one 

 leads direct into the other, there should be a 

 double door made to fit closely (one covered with 

 baize will answer the purpose), as it is impossible 

 to preserve leather or steel work if exposed to the 

 fumes which must, in a greater or less degree, 

 exude from a stable. A saddle-room should be 

 warm and dry, but never too hot. As a rule, the 

 saddle-room fire is the warmest in the establish- 

 ment, and is far too good, and the room is far too 

 hot for the preservation of the leather. A stove is 

 better adapted for saddle-room use than an open 

 fire. It diffuses the heat more generally ; it is 

 safer, equally handy (if not even more so) to cook 

 such mashes, etc., as may be required, and does not, 

 perhaps, offer quite the same attractions for grooms 

 to loaf and waste their time round it, as they are very 

 apt to do at an open fire. Moreover, it takes up less 

 wall room, and certainly twice the number of articles 

 can be aired round a stove as in front of a fire. 



There is an excellent pattern of a stove lately 

 invented which is, I think, far better than any other 

 which I have as yet seen ; but it can only be used for 

 warming purposes, and requires gas to heat it, 

 though I dare say they may also be constructed to 

 burn oil. This stove consists of a number of coils of 



