Breeding Horses. 
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2 inches at the bottom. The hay and straw, which should be 
cut into 6-inch lengths, will require a larger receptacle, which 
should be 3 feet 6 inches long, 2 feet wide at its upper part, and 
half that width below. It should be so constructed, that while 
even with the manger above, it should reach to the ground, 
2 feet above which should be fixeu to the wall a bottom, sloping 
to 1 foot above the ground in the front, where some upright 
openings should be cut, so as to admit of the escape of the seeds 
and dirt. 
At the top of this hay and straw crib, an iron rack with bars 
6 inches apart should be so hung as to open up and fall back 
against the wall to let the fodder be put in, and then be put 
down upon it for the horse to eat through. It should be so much 
smaller than the opening that it can fall down with the fodder 
as it is consumed, bv which means not a particle is wasted. 
The manger may be constructed of yellow deal inches thick 
for the front, back, and ends ; the bottom of slate three-quarters 
of an inch thick. The top of the front and ends should be covered 
with half-round iron, 2 J inches wide, screwed on to project over 
the front outside a quarter of an inch, and three-quarters of an 
inch inside the manger. This prevents the food being tossed 
out, and the manger being gnawed. A short post must be put 
up as near the' centre of the standing as possible to support the 
manger, into which a large screw ring must be put to let the 
•chain or rope of the headstall pass freely up and down without 
