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The stables used for the animals under experiment are situated at 

 the back and. form, with the east and north wings of the laboratory, a 

 quadrangle. In these stables, accommodation is provided for 100 horses 

 and mules, 50 cattle, and 100 sheep and goats. There are twelve loose 

 boxes as well as six isolation boxes, which latter are arranged for slinging 

 horses if required. Doors open into the quadrangle yard, and there are 

 also doors at the back, and passages for feeding with doors at each end 

 run between each stable. In this way in the hottest of weather there is 

 abundance of ventilation, and all cleaning and feeding operations are 

 carried out through the doors at the back, the doors opening into the 

 quadrangle yard being only used for bringing out animals in connection 

 with the laboratory work. A tram line runs the whole length of the 

 stables at the back to facilitate feeding and cleaning, and dead animals 

 are removed to the post-mortem room by this means. 



Behind the stables axe the forage stores and feed mixing room, with 

 chaff-cutter and corn -grinding machine, the buggy house, harness and 

 tool sheds, a carpenter's shop, a saddler's shop, and the wagon and imple- 

 ment shed. There is also a farrier's shop and a large platform scale. 



The dog kennels are in a building which contains 20 pens, with a 

 passage down the middle of the building ; each opens into a yard paved 

 with granolithic and enclosed by iron railings on dwarf walls. 



The piggeries are built on the same plan, but the yards are enclosed 

 by walls 3 ft. high, and are fitted with cast iron feeding troughs and gates. 



There is also a segregation stable capable of holding 30 horses, to 

 receive horses and mules when first admitted to the station, in which they 

 can be malleined, and a room is fitted up at one end of the stable for 

 facilitating this. 



An isolation stable more especially for suspected cases of glanders 

 is apart from the other buildings, and has twelve loose boxes with a 

 feeding passage running down the centre, but the latter has no communica- 

 tion with boxes except by a sliding trap door through which the food can 

 be passed ; a tap supplies water to a trough in each box operated by a 

 cock in the passage. 



There is also a house for breeding small animals, rabbits, and guinea 

 pigs ; this is fitted with removable partitions so that a number of small 

 Ijoxes or larger runs can be arranged as desired, and the whole can be 

 taken down and thoroughly cleansed and disinfected when necessary. 

 The design for this house was copied from the plans of a house for the 

 same purpose in the Berne Laboratory. 



There are eight wood and iron stables, 50 ft. long X 15 ft. wide, 

 opening into yards 50 ft. X 50 ft., fenced with corrugated iron 8 ft. high. 

 These are used for horses kept for serum and for animals not under 

 experiment and reserve animals. Water is laid on to troughs in the yards. 



