STABLE. 



This fort of machinery is arranged and placed in a variety 

 of different ways, according to the circumllances of the 

 different cafes. In a two-aalled (table, paved in the man- 

 ner which is direded above, or in that which has been re- 

 commended by a writer m the firll volume of Communica- 

 tions to the Board of Ac^riculture, a very fimple and 

 convenient apparatus has been contrived for working a 

 chaff-cutter and a bean and barley-cracker, fituated in the 

 upper part of it, by the Rev. Mr. Froud, ef Dartington Par- 

 fonage, in the county of Devon, merely by the power of one 

 horfe. It confilf s, accordinsr to the writer of the correfted 

 agricultural account of the hulhandry of the above dilfrift, 

 of a block of oak funk in the ground below the ftable, with 

 a perpendicular (haft or ilem' paffing through the hay-loft 

 floor, upon the top of which is fixed a crown-wheel of two- 

 inch elm-plank, with fix call-irou fegments, fo as to com- 

 pofe a wheel of this fort of one hundred and eight cogs. 

 There is alfo a pinion-wheel with fourteen cogs, the (haft 

 of which paffes through a drum, which is eighteen inches in 

 diameter. From this" drum the motion is communicated by 

 a belt to the barley-cracker, and by the lame belt to the 

 chaff-cutter, where it is drawn tight over a fheave of 

 eighteen inches in diameter. The barley-cracker has like- 

 wife a fly-wheel, and a wooden hopper for receiving the 

 grain. Tiie lever by which this machinery is worked, and 

 which paffes through a mortife made in the lower part of 

 the Ihaft, makes, it is faid, the divifion of the Italls of the 

 ftable, when tied or fallened to the mangers and other 

 parts. 



Stables may, however, be accommodated with thefe forts 

 of neceffary machinery in other ways and inannert, ptrh:ips, 

 with equal, if not greater, convenience and benelil than as 

 above ; as by having them put up in particular parts of fiich 

 buildings exclnfively appropriated for them, and the ma- 

 terials which they are to work upon ; or by placing them 

 in diftinft feparate ereftions conUrutied purpolely for them, 

 and fuch matters in immediate connettion with the ftables. 

 By either of thefe means every poflible advantage may be 

 gained, without the horfes being fo much dilturbed as in the 

 preceding method. Befidcs, the materials which are to be 

 operated upon may be a great deal more amply provided, 

 and much better ftored up and fecured ; and there will be 

 far more extent for the fixing up and working of fuch forts 

 of machinery, ag well as more room and convenience pro- 

 vided for putting by the different cut and prepared fub- 

 ftances as food for the animals : and above all, a confidential 

 fervant can have the command and controul of fuch fitua- 

 tions, without interfering with the general management of 

 the itables in luch inilances, efpecially where there is a 

 proper corn and provender bin arranged fomewhat in the 

 manner that is fuggeiled below ; by which method a vaft 

 walle and lofs of expenfive food may, in different cafes, be 

 guarded againit, and the macliinery be wrought with a great 

 deal more effeft and fecurity. 



Stables for all forts of faddle-horfes, as well as for thofe 

 of the light carriage kinds, (hould conftantly be railed, con- 

 ftrufted, and fitted up in a neat, warm, and fonietimes, in 

 particular fituations and circumllances, in a rather elegant 

 manner; as fuch forts of horfes can never be made to Iwok 

 fo fleek and well in their coats as they ought to do, without 

 the ftables in which they are kept are in fome degree warm 

 and comfortable. And near the fe.Us and refidences of per- 

 fons of diftinftion, har.diome llables have an ornamental 

 clfedl, in conjunftion with the other forts of offices and 

 buildings, which is moltly defirable, and which (hould fel- 

 dom or ever be overlooked or neglected in the plans and 

 diltributions of the ofQce-buildings, in fuch cafes. The 



particular manner in which fuch ftables are to be built muft 

 be left to, and regulated by, the taftes of the proprietors, 

 and the peculiar nature and circumftances of the fituations ; 

 but in tKe external walls, effeft fiiould almoft always be well 

 confidered and attended to, while the necedary warmth and 

 fecurity are provided in an effectual and proper manner. 



In the Ralls, and the modes of fitting them up in thefe 

 kinds of (tables, the lame fort of neatnefs, elegance, and 

 ornamental effeft, Ihould, for the moft part, be carefully 

 preferved and kept in view ; though, in fome cafes, this need 

 not be fo very much regarded. In the former, or ftalls, 

 there fhould conitantly be a fufficiency of capacity or fize, 

 as already fuggefted, in order that the animals may not be 

 too greatly confined, and that full room may be given for 

 performing the various daily operations that are neceffary 

 about them. The latter, or the fitting up of the ftalls, 

 may be varioufly regulated and executed, according to the 

 different methods and rules which have been laid down above, 

 and the particular tafte of the owners ; having a conftant 

 regard to neatnefs, ornament, convenience, and economy, 

 in the dittribntion of the different kinds of food and labour 

 which are neceffary, and to be performed about them. 



In the conitruftion of ftables for farm and moll forts of 

 heavy team-horfes, a much lefs attention and regard to neat- 

 nefs will always be requifite and proper ; and any fort of 

 elegance or fintnefs in fuch cafes muft invariably be ufelefs, 

 abfurd, and inpropcr. In the building and contriving of 

 thefe forts of (fables, convenience and the health of the ani- 

 mals are the principal circumftances which deferve to be 

 materially confidered and regarded. In the external in- 

 ciofing materials for fuch ftables, any fort which can afford 

 the neceffary warmth, fhelter, and fecurity, and which are 

 at the fame time cheap, will be proper for the purpofe. 

 The ftables for thefe ufes need feldom, if ever, be raifed to 

 fuch heights as thofe for otner forts of horfes ; nor need 

 they always have lofts over them, or, at leaft, over the 

 whole of them ; though fome extent of loft is moftly de- 

 firable, and often of confiderable utility, for containing 

 provender for the horfes in a convenient and readily appli- 

 cable manner. A (mall extent or proportion will, however, 

 mollly anfwer the purpofe very effeftually, when properly 

 arranged and fitted up in fuch intention ; by which a very 

 confiderable faving of expence may not unfrequently be 

 made. 



The arrangement of all fuch ftables muft be according to 

 the nature and circumftances of the farms, and ]iurpofes 

 for which they are intended. The fingle range or row 

 mode, which has been already noticed, is very good, in 

 many inftances ; but they may be quite differently arranged, 

 placed, and fituated, in other cales, with equal or more ad- 

 vantage ; and fometimes, under particular circumftanc«, 

 ftables with double rows of ftalls may be found beneficial on 

 farms, and for other ufes. In fitting up the internal parts 

 of fuch ftables, the main objefts are thofe of convenience, 

 the fafety of the animals, the prevention of the watte of 

 food, and economy in the labour of thofe who have the pro- 

 viding, preparing, and giving of it, as well as the manage- 

 ment of the animals, in fuch cafes. 



Some have adviled the having ftiort diftinft ftalls in ftables, 

 fo that each horfe may confume his feeds in a feparate man- 

 ner, and be liarneffed and prepared for work with more 

 facility and readinefs ; and that the partitions, in fuch cafes, 

 (hould not be carried quite up to the ceihngs of the ftables, 

 in order that a more free and open circulation of air may be 

 produced and preferved. Otheri, again, contend tor quite 

 open (hed- ftables, where the racks and mangers are fixed 

 low down near the ground ; the horfes having fmall yards 



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