858 VISITS TO REMOUNT DEPOT AT SAHARUNPORE. 
benefit, and so be content for a time, although no direct 
economy is immediately obvious in the military supplies. That 
some mode of diminishing the cost of trooper production was 
necessary will be proved by estimating the expense of matured 
horses during the stud arrangement, and by the present depot 
system. The amount under the stud system has been variously 
estimated at from rupees 850 to rupees 2800 ; but the best 
authority appears to place it at about rupees 1750, the sum 
being made up of the price of stallions, amount of purchase- 
money for produce, feeding, pay of establishment, rent, and re¬ 
pair of buildings. Is it less than this in the present day P 
Every Waler costs rupees 100 for transit from Calcutta, add to 
this the purchase-money rupees 550, the cost of Calcutta depot, 
where they are collected, that of the reserved depots of Hapur 
and Saharunpore, deaths, accidents, rejections for unsoundness, 
keep of horses at depots (sometimes for years) at a rate of 
rupees 25 per horse per month, and the ultimate expenses of 
transit of selected horses to regiments. 
Description of Premises at Studs or Depots .— We will take 
Saharunpore as the best and most extensive establishment. 
There are stables with paddocks, and a farm is attached. The 
stables consist of six ranges of arched sheds about 200 feet 
long, and twenty-five feet high, composed of mud brick with tile 
roofs. A wall about three feet high runs down the centre, sur¬ 
mounted by open brickwork, to a sufficient height for guarding 
against injuries. There are no partitions or stalls, and the mangers 
consists of earthen pans supported by platforms composed of mud. 
The horses stand head to head, and there is a hole under each 
manger for the circulation of air. To the rear of the horses is 
sufficient space for the attendants to walk in safety, and without 
the walls is a verandah, also arched. The flooring is of blueish 
clay, which forms a material when dry partially impervious, but 
it is occasionally found necessary to have this removed and 
replaced. The strictest cleanliness is enforced, and in conse¬ 
quence the perfection of purity appears to have been secured. 
"Ventilation receives, of course, great consideration in the con¬ 
struction of these stables, and to secure the full benefit of wel¬ 
come breezes; in hot weather the situation of the building is 
of great importance; but the architect appears to have over¬ 
looked this during the construction of five of them, only one 
securing the best aspect by being built with its gable ends north 
and south. The reason of this situation being preferable is, that 
during hot weather the prevailing breezes are east and west, and 
it is obvious that in a building 200 feet long the benefit of 
these breezes must be curtailed when the sides are not exposed 
to those quarters. The roofs are raised at the eaves, the arches 
