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Having already shewn in the chapter on Air, the great share 

 which Litter has in contributing to the vitiation of the atmesphere 

 of stables, and in this way producing some and aggravating many 

 of the diseases of Horses, it may be thought there cannot be much 

 necessity for me to go minutely, into a detail of it's effects under this 

 head. But as I am of opinion that the subject of Litter, though 

 not entirely overlooked, has, in comparison of its vast importance, 

 been but superficially enquired into, even by scientific vrriters on our 

 art, I shall rather prefer exposing myself to the charge of tautology in 

 the discussion of it, than omit any point which may appear likely to 

 elucidate the effects of its agency on the health of the Horse. For, 

 I have long been impressed with the conviction, that the materials 

 which i're commonly used for litter in these countries, are, on 

 account of their being so extremely susceptible of the putrefactive, 

 fermenvation, the chief cause of curtailing the natural period of the 

 life 0'' Horj^cs, by silently and slowly undermining the \evy princi- 

 ples of their frames, — I liave already furnislied pretty satisfactory 



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