The horse in the stable and the field : his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc. . ough, plain 3 0 0 Ditto ditto enamelled 3 17 6 Corner manger racks aud troughs for loose boxes, from 115 0 Ditto ditto ditto to 9 0 0 Patent halter guide and rein, extiu 100 STABLE FITTINGS 237 The halter tyeings should be made of leather, so as to work without noisethrough the ring on the manger, with a short piece of chain at the end toprevent gnawing. The strap has a weight at the other end covered withindia-rubber, and working in an iron casing fixed against the wall. Whenwe
The horse in the stable and the field : his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc. . ough, plain 3 0 0 Ditto ditto enamelled 3 17 6 Corner manger racks aud troughs for loose boxes, from 115 0 Ditto ditto ditto to 9 0 0 Patent halter guide and rein, extiu 100 STABLE FITTINGS 237 The halter tyeings should be made of leather, so as to work without noisethrough the ring on the manger, with a short piece of chain at the end toprevent gnawing. The strap has a weight at the other end covered withindia-rubber, and working in an iron casing fixed against the wall. Whenwell made such a tyeing works smoothly and noiselessly, and is much saferthan the old ball and rope, as the horse cannot get his leg caught in it. The only remaining fitting yet to be described is the covering of thewalls over the mangers. Wood is not good here, for the moisture from thehorses breath and the food foul the Joints, and it is usual to use Portlandcement or glazed tiles; the latter are superior in cleanliness and should never be white, as the glare is very injurious to the eyesight of. i-M IRON FITTINGS FOR STALLS AND LOOSE BOX. the horse; bufif, pale green, blue, or smoke colour are the best. I do not, how-ever, like the high glaze which such tiles have, on account of the shine beingoften startling to the horse. The St. Pancras Iron Works Company hasrecently brought out a very beautiful tile of all colours, wliich, while beingas impervious as the old ones, is devoid of the objectionable glaze : the costof a set for a stall is £2 2s. Oc?. I have shown these tiles in the annexed engraving of a couple of stallsand a loose box. Here all the iron fittings which I have already describedare introduced, and my reader may judge for himself of their appearance,which is certainly, in my opinion, extremely neat and well adapted to therequirements of the horse. The stalls show the iron manger, rack, andtrough, and the wrought-iron posts to the travis, with iron
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