Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — HORSE Stall and Manger. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HORSE Stall and Manger.

A horse, says Reuben Moore, in the Practical Farmer, should stand on s level floor, with his head down on his hay and feed when eating. Length of manger should be the entire width of stall, about four feet and a half, and two feet in width, which is sufficient to hold a ration of hay, and afford room for the feed box in one corner. The bottom of manger should be fifteen inches from the stall floor, its height to top of manger from floor three feet, four inches.

An opening (E) twenty inches wide and of height of stall is sufficient for the horse to put his head in manger to eat Board up on each side of this so he cannot shove hay out of manger upder his feet A represents stall, four feet six inches wide; B, manger, of same length, two feet wide; C, feed box, in right bottom corner of manger; D, space under manger, fifteen inches high; E, space in front of horse, twenty inches wide, entire height of stall, for horse to put his head in manger to oat; F, ring to tie horse to; G, slide door through which to put hay and grain in manger; 11, room in front of manger to store the temporary supply of hay and gnaiii. I have used this kind and proportion of stall for years, and can recommend it. * All styles of mangers, or ratks compelling the horse to pull out the hay, involve more or less stirring up of dust, and are objectionable on that account liaising Fine Hor»e*. Raising good horses for the farm or the road is a business which will be likely to pay the careful and persevering breeder. But th& raising of horses for the track is one of the most unprofitable lines of business in which a farmer cau engage, lie has neither the capital, the facilities, nor the experience and skill requisite for its successful management. It is true that there have been D a very few fast horses bred on ordinary farms, but the instances are extremely rare, and oven in these cases the breeders have usually sold the animals before their value was discovered, or else they have paid so much for training and caring for them that but Very little profit was left. We would not discourage our farmers from trying to raise good serviceable horses. There Is -a good field here for careful and intelligent men, But wo believe that the ordinary farmer has a good deal better chance of being struck by lightning than he has of raising a Sunol or a Maud S.— American Dairyman.