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 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARMERIES. 3S3 such command of light and darkness during tl eday, and of air at all times. In common (arm stables, windows might be formed of broad luHer-boards, so hinged as to shut close when it was desirable to exclude air, and to open to different degrees according to the quantity of light or air, or both, which might be wanted. In these broad luffer- boards, there might be inserted one or two small panes of glass, for the purpose of ad- mitting light in severe weather when it was not desirable to admit much air. On the whole, whatever description of window is used in a stable, it ought to be such as will when it is desirable, as in very cold weather, for example, admit liglit without air, and in very warm weather, in the day time, admit abundance of air without much light. 755. '4s an Example of a Stable tcith Bo.ves as well as with Stalls, such as is usually erected for gentlemen keeping hunters, we shall give the plan and other details of a Design sent us by ^Ir. Perry, and executed under his superintendence, for a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Godalming. Fig. 794, to a scale of one sixteenth of an inch to a foot, is the ground plan, in which a h are two-stalled stables, each seventeen feet by 793 792 Above are line C D, twelve feet six inches, and con- taining mangers, c, of the width of the stall, and quarter circle upright racks, d, in the angles of each stall. There is a com- mon sash window to each stable, and near it an angle hay bin, e, formed of boards, with a lid, and capable of containing a truss of haj The two-horse boxes, ff, are each twelve feet six inches by nine feet six in- ches, and have mangers, racks, and hay bins like the stables. There is an entrance lobby, g, with stairs to the rooms over, and this entrance has double doors, as appears by the ele- vation, fig. 795. Fig. 796 is a longitudinal section from A to B, in which are shown the partitions between the stalls, h A ; the mangers, i i ; the si- tuation of the drains beneath, k k ; and the openings in the exterior walls for ventilation, 1 1. two rooms for any convenient purpose, m m. Fig. 797 is a cross section on the in fig. 794, in which may be seen the man.cers, n 71 ; the racks, o o ; and the