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THE HORSE. 



PLAN OF STABLE FOR FOUR OR FIVE HORSES. 



A Stalls. 



B Hay-Rack. 



C Carriage House. 



D Doors. 



E Closet for harness, with glass doors. 



P Stairs to the Hay Loft, &c. 



G Manger. 



II Stench Trap. 



AV Windows. 



NECESSITY FOE AIRING NEW STABLES. 



To PUT HORSES INTO new stables without airing them is to 

 give them cold or rheumatism. Indeed those which have been 

 merely uninhabited for some months are not fit for horses that are 

 accustomed to be kept warm and dry, without taking the following 

 precautions. If the walls are very new some open stoves should 

 be kept burning for at least a week, not with the windows and doors 

 shut, as is often done, but with a good current of air blowing 

 through the whole building. In the absence of regular stoves 

 loose bricks may be built up so as to allow a good draught of air 

 through the coals or wood burnt in them, and thus to give out as 

 much heat as is wanted. For stables that have merely been closed 

 for a month or two a fire kindled on the floor and kept burning for 

 a few hours will suffice, but when the horses are first brought in, 

 their beds should previously be made up ready for them, and then 

 the doors, windows and other ventilators should all be shut till the 

 stable becomes thoroughly warmed by the natural heat of their 

 bodies, which it soon is When this is accomplished, if the wea- 



