The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 270
)on wliicli thehoree stands, should incline about li inches, till it reaches theend of this partition, behind which should be a depression orgutter, to carrv oft all the moistuue. In all cases where the * We know that niuiiy stables iilToril scarcely 5 feet—but only a miall horse canlie down… … hay is kept in a loft above the stable, we would make anopening through the floor, over, the manger of each stall, thussupplying the hay-rack to that stall from the hay-loft above,without caiTying or pitching it down. This is not only agreat saving of both labor and hay, but it insm-es cleanliness,…
Architecture, Domestic
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