The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . yjROONFLOOR STALL BOX \ y MANURESHED Fig. 35.—GROUND PLAN. floor. At the right of this are an open stall and a box-stall. In therear of the carriage-floor is a granary with separate bins for oatsand other feed. A passage-way, six feet wide, extends along thefront of the stalls, and gives access to the mangers and feed box-stall is reached by an outer door, and also communicateswith the open stall by a door divided horizontally a little above themiddle. The upper part of the latter door ma
The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . yjROONFLOOR STALL BOX \ y MANURESHED Fig. 35.—GROUND PLAN. floor. At the right of this are an open stall and a box-stall. In therear of the carriage-floor is a granary with separate bins for oatsand other feed. A passage-way, six feet wide, extends along thefront of the stalls, and gives access to the mangers and feed box-stall is reached by an outer door, and also communicateswith the open stall by a door divided horizontally a little above themiddle. The upper part of the latter door may be opened forventilation. A manure shed, eight by fourteen feet, is attached tothe bam in the rear of the stalls. The sides of the barn are coveredwith vertical boarding and battens ; the roof shingled. It is a very-simple and cheaply-built form, 50 THE FAMILY BAIl>^S AXD STABLES. 51 For more extensive premises than a single village lot, it is some-times considered desirable to have an open shed and yard adjoiningthe barn. Figure 36 shows a bam and shed, designed by Mrs. M. , of Orchard Hill Stock Farm, Michigan. The barn iseighteen by thirty-nine feet. On the ground floor, figure 37, area box-stall twelve feet square, and an open stall six by twelve the rear of these stalls is the floor for grooming and harnessing,with harness-closet and stairway, beneath the latter of which arebins for grain. A door at the foot of the stairs opens into the ma- SmiRS * B/NS CARRIAGE BOOM \QFENSHED \ s vis —^ / CRQOMlNd , FLOon I BOX STALL/2XJZ OTEMSTML -\ y Fig. 37.—GROUND PLAN. nure shed, from which there is an outer door into the doors open from the main floor into the yard. Beyond thefloor is the carriage room, away from the stalls, where no fumes ofammonia can reach the vehicles to corrode the leather-work, and fil
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