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4 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, This may be easily avoided by placing one grate in the centre of the stall near the horse's fore feet, about four feet from the wall at the manger, and another grate in the centre of the stall, in a line with the gutter at the end of the stall. The question will naturally be asked, why would you make this alteration which is in just contra- distinction to the most approved plans, drawn in the present day ? I refer the enquirers in quest of informa- tion, to the fields and open country. Let him study the horse there, and he will always see it when standing at its ease, (and it will not stand still at all if it is not comfortable) with its hind feet on the highest ground. I am speaking of sound horses, and this fact is quite in keeping with the structure of the horse. If we will but take the trouble to study its anotomy we shall then find, by placing the horse in that unnatural position with his fore feet on the highest ground, that we throw undue pressure constantly upon the muscles of the belly, causing the colon or large gut to fall upon the ccecam, thereby preventing to a great extent that ireedom of action which is so necessary to that organ, to enable all the substances taken in to re-ascend into the cajmt eoli, and to pass on to the rectum. Another great evil arising out of it is the pain it causes the animal by causing a great strain on the flexor tendon, and the back sinews of the legs, no doubt leading to many of the cases of lameness by windgall and rupture of the sheeth of the tendons, commonly called broken down. I once had a very bad case of break-down, though the animal had not been out of the stable from the Saturday morning until I found it on Monday morning dead lame, and
In the Stable, Field, and on the Moad. 5 1 could not account for it being done in no other way than by slipping on the sloping pavement. I was called a short time ago to see a horse belonging to a carman, which in shaking itself in the stable slipped and fell, breaking both knees, one very severely ; this was another victim to a false system of paving. If you go into any stable that is paved with the fore part the highest, you will find all the horses hang back to the extent of their rack chains, or stand crossways in their stalls, to try to raise their hind feet into a natural position. Go again into a stable of loose boxes that have a grate in the centre of the box, and what do we find ? Every horse with his fore feet in the drain or lowest part of the box, while his haunches are on the highest ground. These facts should be enough to convince any- one that the present system is altogether wrong. LIGHT. " Stand on one side and let God's light and sunshine fall upon me and my horse," are the words I should like to impress upon every builder. Go through all the stables in town and country and see how few have had due attention for light bestowed upon them by the builder. We find small windows, and not one half of them will open, and where they are put they are placed in the very spot to give the smallest amount of light possible. Whereas the windows in every stable should be large, and open from top and bottom, and should be looking to the east if possible, and the horses' heads to the west, so that the sun may shine into the stable as soon as it rises in the morning, spreading its light into
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