One of the best kinds of Stable-floors, where the soil is a dry one, is made of a composition of lime, ashes, and clay, mixed up in equal parts into a mortar, and spread twelve to fifteen inches deep over the surface of the ground forming the bottom of the stables. It will dry in a week or ten days, and makes a very smooth fine flooring, particularly safe, easy, and agreeable for horses to stand on, and free from all the objections of stone, brick, and wood; and were it not that a sharp-shod horse is apt to cut it up, we should consider it as quite perfect. When the corks on the shoes are sharp, more pains should be taken in littering the floor to a greater depth, which would tend to its preservation. When much cut and worn, the flooring is easily broken up with a pick-axe, softened with water, and again relaid. The stables of Mr. Gibbons of New Jersey, are floored with the above composition, and he informs us that he highly ap proves of them on his dry soil. Indian-rubber has been used in England for floors and found to answer well. It has been in use at the royal stables at Woolwich for two years past. It is soft to the feet, comfortable to lie on, and from its yielding nature never injures the knees, hocks, or pasterns.

It is easily cleaned, the urine runs off freely, and suffers no collection underneath the floor to taint the air.]