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 780 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARMERIES. 381 781 782 783 784 785 globe, open at top, for putting in the hay or other fodder. When the upright rack shown in fig. 780 is formed of wood, the staves or upright spars are one inch and a quarter square, or round, let into top ana hottora rails, three inches and a half by two inches and a half. If the staves are square, they are mortised into these rails ; and, if they are round, holes are bored in the rails, to admit their ends. The common width of the openings between the staves is two inches and a quarter ; but large horses require three inches. The bottom of the rack is filled in with spars of the same dimensions as the staves of the rack, and at rather less distance from each other. The partitions between the stalls, when made of wood, are thus formed : — A strong post, called the heel-post, or stable-post, six inches square, and seven or eight feet long, so as to stand six feet high when the lower end is inserted in the ground, is firmly fixed by ramming round its lower end with earth and stones. Into this post two rails are mortised, the other ends of which are nailed to the uprights which support the rack, and against these rails upright boards an inch thick are nailed, and terminated by a capping piece, straight or ramped, according to taste. Short partitions, three or four feet long, and seven feet high, are sometimes formed between stalls, to prevent horses adjoining each other from eating together. The width of stalls with these short partitions, Waistell obsers^es, may be about four feet and a half. Long partitions to stalls, he says, should be about eight feet ; and the width of each stall, from five feet and a half to six feet. In some parts of the country, it would be cheaper to form the partitions of slate or flag-stone, or even of common nibblework ; or of rammed earth, or of cob. 754. The JFlndow most suitable for Stables and Cow-hottses, we think, should be com- posed of glass within, and of lufter-boarded blinds, to serve also as shutters, without. The construction is shown in figs. 787 to 793. Fig. 788, to a scale of a quarter of an inch to a foot, is a iew of the glass window, as seen inside the stable or cow-house. It is com- posed of two sashes, a, b, one of which slides past the other, in two grooves, in the top and bottom of the frame, as shown in the section fig. 787. These two sashes are without horizontal bars, and are glazed in the manner of hot-house windows, for the reasons before mentioned, § 752. At c is a mortise cut in the side style of the window frame, for a handle to move up and down in, which is used to work the outside blinds, and this handle can be locked by an iron pin, when the blinds are used as shutters. Fig. 789 is an outside view of the same window, with the blinds placed before it ; the laths or lufFer- boards being in a horizontal position, to admit the greatest quantity of light. Fig. 791 is a cross section of the window complete, with the lufFer-blinds, d, outside, and the two sashes, e, inside. In this figure is seen the lever handle, /, which works the luffer-boards. In the knob of this handle there is a small hole, which (when the