3-009-024 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The International Exhibition: stable fittings by Messrs. Musgrave Brothers, of Belfast, 1862. 'Open stall, with patent sliding barrier; open stall, with tumbling manger; harmless loose-box...the new features introduced [are] not only ingenious but extremely useful..."A patent harmless loose-box manger, which is so arranged that an open iron grating comes forward and is bolted perpendicularly flush with its front edge. In this state a violent horse cannot possibly rear or kick into it...The arrangements for fixing the ordinary iron manger are excellent, it being effected by an iron shoe, which is fitted loosely on the front and screws into the face of the partition on each side. This makes the manger fit exactly to any varying width...The revolving mash-trough is capital, being far more easily cleaned out...So also the false bottom hinged to the back of the rack, so as to adapt it either for "cut- stuff" or hay, is extremely valuable...A wooden saddle-airer is an improvement...allowing plenty of air to circulate without the contact of damp flannel and iron...A barrier-pole sliding back into a recess in the stall-trevis is like-wise an improvement, as it is so easily drawn out that even the most idle groom is likely to use it".' From "Illustrated London News", 1862.