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rule to have a suitable place in his lot dug up, and if 

 there are clods, have them mashed and let him have 

 a soft place to wallow. Where an animal is accus- 

 tomed to roll or wallow every day the place becomes 

 very hard, and if it is not dug up occasionally it may 

 bruise his withers and produce fistula. 



In building a jack stable it should be large and 

 roomy so that he can exercise some in bad weather. 

 There should be no cracks in the stable that an animal 

 can get his feet through. Some log stables have cracks 

 large enough to let an animal get his foot in them and 

 break his leg. Have known such instances. In build- 

 ing a stable let the door be roomy and on the south 

 side. 



The lot should be at least one acre and sowed down 

 in blue grass, herd's grass, orchard grass and timothy, 

 provided the soil is suitable for such grasses. By hav- 

 ing different kinds of grass it gives the animal a 

 variety of grazing and some one of them will afford 

 good grazing all seasons of the year. Now I would 

 suggest that you, if convenient, have a small lot of a 

 quarter of an acre and let the jack exercise in it and 

 roll, or wallow, then he can be let in his grazing lot 

 and when he has filled himself put him in his exer- 

 cising pound. By so doing you can economize in 

 saving your grass. Stock do not like to eat grass 

 where it has been walked over by other stock. It is 

 important to give plenty of good, sweet timothy or 

 herd's grass, well-cured fodder or such roughness as 

 the animal is fond of. 



The stable should be kept dry. 



If the jack is kept shod during the breeding season, 

 Jiis shoes should be taken off to let his hoofs toughen, 



