. Barn plans and outbuildings . doors. The stall isnhie by four and one-half feet and the maliger is twenty-one inches from front to back. An iron feed trough forgrain occupies one end of the manger, indicated bydotted lines at G. The remainder is taken up by the haybox at //, the bottom of which is shown by the dottedlines. A door in front allows for cleaning out the feedbox and opens to a closet. The box stalls are also pro-vided with the iron rods for a top finish, so that a person BOX AND OPEN STALLS 217 can easily see into them without entering. The interiorexposed woodwork is varnished,
. Barn plans and outbuildings . doors. The stall isnhie by four and one-half feet and the maliger is twenty-one inches from front to back. An iron feed trough forgrain occupies one end of the manger, indicated bydotted lines at G. The remainder is taken up by the haybox at //, the bottom of which is shown by the dottedlines. A door in front allows for cleaning out the feedbox and opens to a closet. The box stalls are also pro-vided with the iron rods for a top finish, so that a person BOX AND OPEN STALLS 217 can easily see into them without entering. The interiorexposed woodwork is varnished, making a neat and sub-stantial finish. Where mares are kept a tight floor in the stall is notespecially inconvenient, but with geldings the case isotherwise. For them such a floor as is shown in Figure215 is best suited for keeping their coats from becomingstained. The stable floor beneath the flooring of the stallshould slope a little so that the liquids that run throughthe openings in the stall flooring will be conveyed down. Fig. 216—BOX STALL Fig. 217 OPEN STALL behind the stall, where they may be absorbed in thelitter. The pieces of which the stall floor is made maybe five inches wide, laid one-half inch apart. They aioshown farther apart than this in the cut in order tomake the matter plain. There shovild be four cross bear-ings under the stall floor if two-inch stuff is to be the many forms of horse stalls, the one sho\\ai inFigure 217 has perhaps the most good points. All stallfloors should be laid lengthwise of the stall. The boardsshould extend the full length of the stall. When badlyworn they can be changed end for end and if turned over 218 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS much extra wear is obtained. Soft wood, like pine oreven elm, is superior to oak. There is less danger ofthe horse slipping when he gets up. The most important part of the stall is the hay rackand manger. When the hay is thrown into a deep mangerwhere the horse has free access to the entire q
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