St. Landry democrat., 1888-01-21
STABLES FOR HORSES.
An Able Essay on the StaDlins and Care
OF Farm Animals

eighteen feet wide. and, of such length
as will allow 4 six feet standing for
each horse, and ten feet high. The
horses stand i'll u single row, and tina
harness is hung on pegs in the wall
behind them. This width admits Of
thorough ventilation to the stable.
without subjecting the horses to
iraughts. Each standing should be
parted off by an upright post, reaching
from the ground to the ceiling rafter,
placed three feet from the wall at the
horses head. These partitions should
be closely boarded up three feetabove
the manager and hay CRIB. to prevent
the horses Guarreling about the food
and kicking each other. To each of
these posts a bale eight feet long
and one foot eight inches
wide, should be hung by %
strong chain. to divide the standings,
and suspended by another strong chain
at the hinder end from the ceiling
rafter: Each chain should have a
hook and eye within reach that may
be readily unfastened. This arrange
ment will leave space of six fce5 OBJ
posite the head of each horse, availa-
bic for feeding purposes The manager
Tor corn and chaff may be made two
feet six inches long. 1t should be two
feet wide at the top; one foot two
inches at the bottom. The hay and
straw, which should be cut into siy-
inch lengths, will require larger re-
ceptacle. which should be three feet
six inches long, two feet wide at its
upper part, and half that width be-
low.
At the top of this hay aud straw
crib, an iron rack, with bars six inches
apart, should be so hung as to openup
and fall back against the wall to let
the fodder be put in. and then
put down upon it for the horses
to eat through. 1t should be so much
smaller than the opening that ii can fall
down with the fodder as it is consumed,
by which means not particle is
wasted. The top of the front and ends
should be covered with half-round
iron, two and q half inches wide,
screwed on to project over the front
outside aquarter of an inch, and three
quarters of an inch inside the manager.
This prevents the food being tossed
out. and the manger being guawed.
A short post must be put as near the
center of the standing as possible to.
support the mangcr, into which
large screw ring must be put to let the
chain OF rope of the head-stali pass
freely up and down without friction.
The manger may be three feet six
inches from the grou nd to The tops.
The hay crib of course the same
height.
The flooring of the standings three
feet six inches from the head, should
De fiat, then with fall from both
sides to the center, where drain of
our inches wide. with removable.
lat cover fitted to the inside OF it,
should be placed straight down the
standing with g fall into another
anger cross-main drain ten feet five
inches from the head. so placed as to-
larry away the urine from all the
mailer drains into a tank outside the
table.
The ventilation is the most impor-
ant feature in the construction of the
table; upon it depends the health of
III the horses and consequently their
sefulness. No stable should be with.
nut a constant change of air. and no
orse in it should feel the draught.
The two ends Of the stable may DO SO
as to effect this object in this
lanner: Take twelve feet from the
cad wall to the opening for the stable
loor; allow eight inches for the two
DOR posts, and four feet six inches
rom the door. This will leave ten
1ches between the door-post farthest
rom the horse and the back wall.
his space, from the ground to the
Dp of the door. should be left open
nd covered with strong rabbit wire
,ork, which should be permanently
xed. The door should be seven feet
Ugh. and cut in two parts horizontal
Y, at a height of four feet. The lower
art may be kept shut while the
orses are in; the upper three feet
lay be open or shut according to the
ate of tie atmosphere Plenty OF
CHIT should be admitted from
he hinder wall by narrow, fixed win
ows. made of slabs of strong glass, J,
ever to be opened. Windows open
lg in bad directions, and open sky
ghts. kill horses by wholesale lac
described is suited for
IN horses.
It is important that the water which
orses drink should be exposed t" me
at least six hours before
ley are allowed 10 have it; and they
hould never be allowed to drink an-
/ they have eaten something. The
bic is always occasioned by their
king large quantities of cold water
ito empty stomachs.
The temperature of the cart-horse
able should be rs little above the
eternal air as may be, to keep tue
mates comfortably warm. Ire.
orking carl-horsc, when turned on
the grass in the summer, may nave
the stable eight or ten POUNDS OF