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THE HORSE. 



and 3 inches wide, and these should be firmly wedged into the 

 wall or travis at each end. The bottoms may be of inch oak, and 

 the backs, ends, and fronts, of inch elm, or, if deal is used, they 

 should be a little stouter. Supposing low racks to be introduced 

 also of wood, they should be 2 feet wide, and should project 5 

 inches beyond the manger, making them IS inches deep inside. 

 An oak post must be dropped into the floor at the junction of the 

 two. so as to give strength at this part, and the two caps may be 

 strongly nailed or bolted to the top of this. The rack is generally 

 made from 2 ft. to 2 ft. 3 in. deep outside, which leaves a space 

 below sufficient to insure the free passage of seeds and dust. 



(2.) Iron mangers are made of the same dimensions as the 

 above, but in general the capping of the rack is continuous with 

 that of the manger, as shown in the engraving on this page. 

 Both are five inches wide, to prevent the horse laying hold of the 

 iron and thus wearing down his teeth. A water-tank occupies 

 one end of the space at the head of the stall, the manger the 

 middle, and the rack the other end, — the two former being 

 generally enamelled inside. The addition of the tank is in favor 

 of iron as a material ; for water remaining in wood soon rots it, 

 and hence even if wooden mangers are preferred, the tank, if 

 adopted, must be of iron. 



The only remaining fitting yet to be described is the enam- 

 elled tile, which is now very generally introduced in first-class 

 stables at the heads of the stall above the mangers. I cannot say 

 that I see any great advantage in them, as a coat of sound Roman 

 cement will be as impervious to all kinds of diseased secretions as 

 the best enamel, — that is to say, when each is washed. Neverthe- 

 less, I have shown these tiles iu the annexed engraving of a couple 



IRON FITTINGS FOR BTALLS AND LOOSE BOX. 



of stalls and a loose box, which is taken from the pattern plan ex- 

 hibited at the St. Pancras Iron works. Here all the iron fittings 



