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 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARMERIES. 379 the ribs are round iron rods five eighths of an inch in diameter ; and the whole weighs twenty-four pounds and a quarter, and costs 6s. Below it is an angle manger of cast iron, which measures three feet in length in front, with a basin one foot seven inches long, one foot wide, and eight inches deep. It weighs two quarters twenty-three pounds, and costs 9s. Fig. 772 is a wrought-iron rack, three feet long, eighteen inches high, and eighteen inches wide. It weighs thirty pounds, and costs 6s. 6d. Fig. 773 is a cast-iron bull's-eye rack two feet and a half in diameter, which costs 7s. 6d. These iron racks are far more durable than wooden ones ; and, about London at least, cost less. 752. As an Example of a Stable with high Racks, Mangers, and partitioned Stalls, constructed in the most approved manner, we refer to figs. 774 to 779. Fig. 774 is the 774 1 n a a 1 1 1 1 III III 1 1 a b P n n D z--:-l '' f -^^J=i=0 !! G=C^C: -f~L ground plan of a stable for eight horses, in which the racks are upright. In the centre there is a foddering bay, a ; with a corn chest, b, placed on blocks of stone, to prevent its bottom from rotting ; in the front walls there are recesses, c c, six inches or more deep, according to the kind of wall, for hanging harness in the upper part, and for pails and other articles used in the stable to stand in below. The recesses under the windows wiU allow of placing a small corn bin or cupboard there. The dotted lines from d to d represent the main gutter drain, and the short dotted lines from it, e, the branch drains into the different stalls ; the dotted lines at / indicate a drain communicating with the liquid manure tank. The gi*atings placed over the main and stall gutters may be of stone or oak, pierced with holes ; or of massive cast iron, like fig. 775, which, when twelve inches square, costs 4s. ; when fifteen inches, 6s. 9d. ; and when eighteen inches, 9s. 9d. Fig. 776 is a cross section on the line A B ; in which is shown a ventilator in tlie roof, formed by a tube, with a stopper, g, sliding horizontally, continued up imme- diately under the roof, and opening in the ridge, under a protecting cover composed of two large slates, h; i is a cast-iron harness peg ; k is the corn chest ; I, the rack ; jn, the manger ; n, the grating at the termination of the stall gutter ; and o, the main gutter ; p, the space under the rack, into which dust, seeds, and other matters from the hay or fodder drop down through the grated bottom of the rack, and are taken out, from time to time, by removing the bottom board in front. Fig. 777 is a front elevation of this stable, in a simple style, which may be called Grecian. Two of the windows are shown with outside blinds, and two glazed between upright bars, without horizontal ones, in the manner of hot-house sashes. The intention of this mode of glazing is to avoid collecting the moisture and dust which otherwise are always found on the cross bari of stable and out-house windows. All the windows are intended to have outside ■asSO" LI