268 THE HORSE IN SERVICE 



REVIEW 



1. What should well-arranged stables provide? 



2. What determines the dimensions of a stable? 



3. Give specifications for a straight stall. 



4. How large should a box stall be and why? 



5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of paved stall floors? 



and how may the disadvantages be partially overcome? 



6. What purposes does bedding serve ? Name the bedding materials in 



common use and the relative merits of each. 



7. What should govern the number, size, and placing of the windows? 



8. What are the fresh air requirements of the average horse and what 



cubic space in the stable is necessary to meet them ? 



9. What consideration should be given to the assignment of stalls in 



the stabling of horses ? 



10. What special care do the legs of horses require? 



11. Of what does proper shoeing consist ? 



12. Discuss the advisability of clipping horses. 



13. How does fashion govern the trimming of horses? 



14. To what extent do horses require clothing? 



15. To what are most bad habits, which horses acquire in the stable, due? 



