. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. ging rooms over thestalls or boxes. GROUND PLANS OF STABLES. In deciding on the best ground plan for stabling a great dealmust always depend upon the kind and number of horses to beplaced in it. In the following plans I shall consider the two ex-tremes aiforded by those for racehorses or hunters on the one hand,and on the other by the hack or harness stable for two or threehorses where space is a great object. As a general rule racehorsesand hunters require a loose box each, because they are oftengreatly distressed
. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. ging rooms over thestalls or boxes. GROUND PLANS OF STABLES. In deciding on the best ground plan for stabling a great dealmust always depend upon the kind and number of horses to beplaced in it. In the following plans I shall consider the two ex-tremes aiforded by those for racehorses or hunters on the one hand,and on the other by the hack or harness stable for two or threehorses where space is a great object. As a general rule racehorsesand hunters require a loose box each, because they are oftengreatly distressed, and must then have entire rest and quiet toenable them to recover themselves. They are also a great manyhours together in the stable, and being called upon for groat exer-tions when out they ought to have plenty of air when indoors GROUND PLAN OF STABLE. 175 The best proportions for their boxes are sixteen to eighteen feetlong by twelve feet wide and nine or ten high, but these are per-haps a little above the average. Nevertheless I have given thesein the annexed plan of a. KACING OR HUNTING STABLE. It is divided into four separate stables thirty-six feet long and eigh-teen wide, in which three or even four loose boxes may be separatedby partitions nine feet high with open iron tops, as shown at page172, or one or more may be divided by travises into six stalls eachsix feet wide. I have already alluded to the fittings for each, andtherefore I need say nothing more here beyond alluding to theplan itself.* * The plan on the ensuing page, of a stable belonging; to Mr. Samuel , of Philadelphia, was selected after a careful examination, asbeing unusually well arranged for four or five horses. It has now accom-modations for five horses, but it could lie made very convenient for fourby taking out the partition between the fourth and fifth stalls, thus makingthree stalls and a loose —Editor. 176 THE HORSE.
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