fresh air: this is still a difficulty, however; for the
effluvium of the stable is difficult to dispel, and draughts
must be avoided. This is sometimes accomplished by means of
hollow walls with gratings at the bottom outside, for the exit
of bad air, which is carried down through the hollow walls and
discharged at the bottom, while, for the admission of fresh air,
the reverse takes place: the fresh by this means gets diffused
and heated before it is discharged into the stable.

2207. _The Stalls_ should be divided by partitions of wood-work
eight or nine feet high at the head and six at the heels, and
nine feet deep, so as to separate each horse from its neighbour.
A hay-rack placed within easy reach of the horse, of wood or
iron, occupies either a corner or the whole breadth of the
stall, which should be about six feet for on ordinary-sized
horse. A manger, formerly of wood, but of late years more
generally of iron lined with enamel, occupies a corner of the
stall. The pavement of the stall should be nearly level, with a
slight incline towards the gutter, to keep the bed dry, paved
with hard Dutch brick laid on edge, or asphalte, or smithy
clinkers, or rubble-stones, laid in strong cement. In the
centre, about five feet from the wall, a grating should be
firmly fixed in the pavement, and in communication with a
well-trapped drain to carry off the water; the gutter outside
the stall should also communicate with the drains by trapped
openings. The passage between the stall and the hall should be
from five to six feet broad at least; on the wall, opposite to
each stall, pegs should be placed for receiving the harness and
other things in daily use.

2208. _A Harness-room_ is indispensable to every stable. It
should be dry and airy, and furnished with a fireplace and
boiler, both for the protection of the harness and to prepare
mashes for the horses when required. The partition-wall should
be boarded where the harness goes, with pegs to hang the various
pieces of harness on, with saddle-trees to rest the saddles on,
a cupboard for the brushes, sponges, and leathers, and a lock-up
corn-bin.

2209. _The furniture_ of a stable with coachhouse, consists of
coach-mops, jacks for raising the wheels, horse-brushes,
spoke-brushes, water-brushes, crest and bit-brushes,
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