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JjL AVING laid such stress, upon the necessity of the free admission 

 of air into stables, there will be the less occasion for being diffuse 

 on the subject of light ; as it will almost always happen, that if 

 air be freely admitted, so will light also. But, I have now and then 

 had occasion to remark, that some stables are built, as if with 

 the inti-ntion, of purposely excluding the light, which ought, 

 undoubtedly, to visit stables freely. And though the saving 

 of the expence of windows, is, no doubt, the main object with 

 most people, who construct dark stables, yet, I have been led 

 to suspect, on recollecting the great number of livery stables, in 

 cities and large towns, which the light of heaven, seems to be pur- 

 posely shut out from, that some other motive besides economy, must 

 bave occasioned people to construct their stables, upon this principle. 

 Now, there can be no doubt, that animals kept in a state of darkness 

 fatten faster, than in those places, where light is freely admitted. 



This fact is well known to poulterers, who are known to avail 

 themselves of the circumstance, in order to expedite the fattening 

 process, through the medium of the state of sleep. 



