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the heel post, but the most efficacious method is to have a 

 good long stall, never less than ten feet from manger to 

 pillar, and longer if necessary. 



An average horse covers eight feet of ground, and the 

 average length given to a stall is ten feet from wall to 

 pillar. If 18 inches are taken off for the manger, it 

 reduces the actual length of the partition to eight feet 

 six inches. But the animal never keeps close up to its 

 manger except when feeding; the majority of horses stand 

 back in the stall to the extreme length of their collar shank. 



Fiff. 105. — Ornamental Stall Division. 



and if they can place their hind feet in the drain behind 

 they will do so. In this position they may readily be kicked. 



The length of the stall division should be measured from 

 the manger and not from the wall. Nine feet from the 

 manger should be the irreducible minimum, and most 

 horses will require ten feet. The width of the stall from 

 partition to partition should never be less than six feet. 



If we have spent some little time discussing what may 

 seem a somewhat trifling question, viz., a stall partition, it 

 is for the reason that in stable managenient it is a question 

 of the utmost importance, more than half the injuries that 

 occur in the night are due to kicks, and a large percentage 

 of these could not occur if stalls were made longer. Most 



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