PROPER STYLE OF RACK. 



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ground, where it can be easily reached. If there is not too much 

 given, the horse will eat it clean. 



The Importance of this is now so well understood that all first- 

 class horses are fed in this way. For the ordinary work horse, or for 

 country stables, a simple low rack or manger, one side made into , a 

 box or receptacle for the grain, and the other part for hay, is all that 

 is necessary. If two horses are kept together, the stall should be 

 about twelve feet wide, with grain-boxes at the right and left, and 

 the manger for hay in the center. Horses accustomed to work- 

 ing together will always agree when kept in the same stall, 

 especially when they have separate mangers, and are prevented 

 by their halters from interfering with each other's grain. The 



Fig. 371. — The Accepted Form of Single Stalls. 



mangers and racks should be on a level, and about three feet 

 and four inches from the ground. The manger should not be 

 less than sixteen or eighteen inches de*ep ; eighteen inches from 

 front to back, and twenty or twenty-two inches in length. For orie 

 horse, the rack should be about four, feet in length. The advantage 

 of such a manger and rack is, that all the hay that is put into it will 

 be eaten clean. There will be less danger than by the common high 

 rack of putting more hay before the horse than he will eat at the 

 time, and thus his mussing and spoiling it will be prevented. It will 

 entirely Obviate the objection of dust and seeds falling upon his head 

 and into his eyes, or of pulling the hay out and wasting it under his 

 feet. 



Some horses are inclined to throw their hay out with their 

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