The Horse Block and the Dog Block
On every large-animal block the frontage lots — clinic, stable, arenas, barns, houses, tack, feed, and the visitors’ lawn — are let one by one, and the field lots behind are let whole to one ground enterprise, which sells turnout and field time by the head to the frontage businesses. Every animal, building, and acre has one custodian, and nothing on a block is provided or free. Stalls, houses, yards, and the field in use are cleaned daily, and manure goes out to the farms the same day. A dog block is ten acres, with group houses and yards, fields, and a clinic on the frontage: no cage and no run. The plate’s horse block (15 acres, about 30 horses and 20 goats and sheep) and dog block (80 dogs) come from an earlier study; the constitution now sets six dog blocks, two horse grounds, and four horse blocks, stocked first with 960 dogs and 140 horses.
