The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-12-27

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room is very lofty, AMI when all the
horses are in, and the windows closed, the
temperature rapidly rises. A small room
opening out of the stable is used for
harness room, and is kept warm by coal
fire. One man is employed to keep the
harness in order, mendiDg and oilng
them. The horses have no fixed time for
their work, Ebut come into the stable when
there is nfthing further to be done
groom is always in attendance to rub them
down and blanket them. Each stall con-
tains smal u trough lined with zinc for
oats, meal snd liquid food, also large
trough for bran
All the hay eaten by the horses is cut,
sailed and mixed with oat and corn meal.
Each horse is fed sixteen quarts of oats
per day. The cutting machine was spoken
of as a "bully one" and the name of e.
II. Raney & Co., of So Water street, was
painted upon the sides, fact which may
be of some interest to other stable keep
ers. Slides for the hay, oats and meal
run from the church to the stable, which
! is on the ground floor.
These horses are of large size, stout
aud healthy. Their pedigree is traced
back no farther than Bulls Head market,
where they are purchased. 4 man at
tends the sales, selects such and as many
horses as are wanted, and takes them to
the stable on weeks trial. At the end
Of that.t they have proved their sound
ness and working qualities, and are kept
or sent back accordingly. The prices paid
for them varies from S50S to 81, 00O-
Some Of the horses have been in Mr..
Stewards employ for eight years When
a good one is found it is kept as long as it
is able to work. t--.
THE STABLES OF CORNELIUS WANDER
t.. BILT.
At Nos. % and "a Fourth street, are
the brown stone stables of Mr.. Wander
bilt. The principal rooms are on the
ground floor, aud consist of carriage
room and small trottiug park Or training
course. The trotting park is an immense
room, lighted from above and paved with
cobtles. The course is covered several
inches deep with sawdust. The horses
are walked about this course twice each
day, during the winter. to keep them in
training. Mr.. Vanderbilt keeps a stud of
nine horses, and nine different styles of
wagon. At present two Of his best horses
are out of town in the hands of their for.
fnr trainIDg.
His celebrated fourteen thousand dol.
lar horse, Mountain Boy, is at Newburgh,
on the Hudson, and Post Boy is at New
Hamburg. The Boston Girl, which cost
six thousand three hundred dollars, is al
so out, but her mate, the St. Lawrence
Maid, is in the stable. Mr.. Vanderblt's
pet names for these two horses are Noye
aud Maggie. The stud mare Rosy, which
trots mile in three minutes, is also in
the stable. A new colt, called Feniau
Ri !, which has not yet been drought
out into society,"" fills one o: the stalls.
Mr.. Vanderbilt pays but little attention
to the carriage horses, although Madame
rides after a span Of fine blacks.
The stalls are arranged along the sides
of what is known as cellar stable, being
seven feet below the surface of the street.
Great attention is paid to ventilation, each
stall having a ventilator besides general
passage for fresh air and light which runs
from the centre of the room up to the
roof. No little attention is paid to this
subject of fresh air for horses at the
same time a comfortable temperature is
preserved. In this stable it is impossible
for foul air to remain.
| : ,coe WON, RI oI il,ot paarlp ouory How
which came into that stable had a cold, or
some disease of the nose and chest, but
after remaining a while it entirely recov-
cred, and was never heard to neigh. The
ho.scs enter this stable by going down a
flight of gradually discerning stone steps
thickly covered with saw dust.
T-ere is great difference in the man
agement of different horses, the work
horses of MIR. Stewart being able to bear
more food Of different quality than the
fancy trotting horses Of Mr.. Vanderbilt.
'They differ the same as men and women
in their grub said the groom, and that
explains the whole matter. If tnIs fact
is recognized by the keeper then each
horse is law unto itself, and eats that
which is best suited to its constitution
In the summer time when trottng team
is at work each day, they have bat nine
quarts of each.
They are "mashed off" or fed, with
meal but twice week. Most of the hay
they eat is uncut. The upper or second
story of these stables is used for hay and
grain, with slides which communicate with
the cellar. The harnesses of the establish.
ment are kept in excellent order and dis
played in a glass show case.
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