HORSE AND STABLE HINTS.
The use and value of farm horses are often seriously impaired by lack of proper stabling. & They are crowded in filthy, ill-ven-tilated stables, the air so bad from the damp urine-soaked floors that the harness is rotted by it. The eyes and lungs and general health are injured, and disease of some kind is sure to follow.
A side light strains the eye unequally. The light should come in the stable from the front, and the windows should he lime-washed to mellow the light. A stable should never he dark.
The stable should be well - ventilated, but so carefully that no draught can possibly touch a warm horse. A draught on a liorse warm from work or driving will bo sure to min Do not feed from a rack overhead, as the dust from the hay is apt to be breathed, and is not good for the lungs. : A deep manger is best. A wide manger for the gi'ain is best, so the grain can he scattered to prevent bolting. The stalls should he five feet wide.
A horse cannot rest in a narrower one, and in a wider one he* might roll and get fast. Look out that the slight settling of the barn does not cause the stallfloors to slope towards the mangers. Do not break up teams, but as far as possible let every horse work with its Tegular mate. —“Australian Agriculturist.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1618, 4 March 1903, Page 64
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