The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 13
are compelled to be for the value of space as in towns,
air-shafts should be carried from the stables through the
roof, and all communication from the stable shut oft
by doors, as nothing spoils hay sooner than the smells
from a stable. A box or stall should be always made at
one end of the stable for the purpose of washing horses
after a journey, so that the floor of the stable can be
kept dry, The saddle-room should be in direct communication
with the stable, as nothing is so bad for men
as to have to run out of doors in all weathers for every-
thing they require. Many stablemen come to a pre-
mature grave by running out of a hot stable in their
shirtsleeves when in a state of perspiration ; the cold
striking them, they become affected with asthma,
bronchitis, and rheumatism ; yet not one stable in a
hundred has any regard paid to the comtort of the men.
The internal fittings of the stable are a matter of taste ;
and as every crow thinks its own bird the whitest, so
every gentleman thinks his own stable the best. Having
tried to show what a stable ought and ought not to be,
I will proceed to the management of the horse in the
stable, and hope to be able to show that it is by kind-
ness alone that we must resort to make the horse love,
fear, and obey. God, in his infinite wisdom, has formed
the horse so that it can be operated upon by the know-
ledge of man according to the dictates of his will, and
he might well be termed an unconscious, submissive
servant. This truth we see verified in every day's
experience by the abuses practised upon him. That he
is so constituted by nature that he will not offer resist-
ance to any demand made of him which he fully