The Stable Book; Being a Treatise on the Management of Horses, in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering and Working. Construction of Stabl - neues Buch

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: evaporates and mingles with the air. These stables of course are always damp and foul. Their inhabitants are liable to more than their share of disease at all times, and especially when an unhealthy season prevails. Fio. 2. Fig. 2 gives a view of the stable erected by the late Mr. James Donaldson. The breadth excepted, it is a perfecl model for a stable of two stalls. One half of the stall flooi is laid with brick; the other half is covered by a single slab of freestone, which is grooved longitudinally and transversely, and perforated at each intersection of the grooves. The perforations conduct the urine to an under-ground drain, which c.an be cleaned in its whole extent by lifting the channel- grating. This seems to be a much better contrivance than the iron-grating, since it is more extensive, less costly, less likely to give or to receive injury, and requiring no declivity on any par of the stall. In other respects this stable is very neat. It has a boiler behind the inside stall; a cupboard, a window well placed, the mangers and travis moveable. It is only twelve feet wide; if copied, the gangway should bo three feet broader. In this cut, the manger is shown too low nd the rack too high. Declivity of the Stall.?The ordinary mode of draining the stall is to make it slope from the head to a gutter, about ten feet from the manger. The inclination varies from two tc inches on the ten feet This hus been objected to, bulas it appears to me, without any good reason. It is said that the flexor muscles and back sinews are put upon the stretch, to such a degree that they are injured. It is not easy to believe this. As far as I have been able to ascertain, no one has ever seen a horse lamed in this way. The matter might be decided by experiment. By making a horse stand for a ...