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and the stable may be, if possible, separate and distinct from th 

 barn with advantage. Hide it if you like behind trees, but do not 

 cut off the 



Circulation of Air. 



A supply of pure air is as necessary to the life and health of a 

 horse as of man. In many stables air is carelessly admitted, and 

 blows either on the head of the horse or in such a way that cold and 

 cough is the inevitable result. The practice of feeding hay through 

 a hole above the head of the horse invites fatal results in the way of 

 cold, not to mention the possibility of hayseed falling into the eyes 

 of the horse when it is looking up for its food. An pposite error, 

 however, is to exclude every possible breath of air and have the 

 atmosphere of the stable hot and unwholesome. The effect of several 

 horses being shut up in one stable is to render the air anpleasantly 

 warm and foul. A person coming from the open air cannot breathe 

 in it many minutes without perspiring. In this temperature the 

 horse stands, hour by hour, often with a covering on. This is sud- 

 denly stripped off, and it is led into the open air, the temperature of 

 which is many degrees below that of the stable. It is true that while 

 it is exercising it has no need of protection, but, unfortunately, it too 

 often has to stand awaiting its master's convenience, and this, per- 

 haps, after a brisk trot which has opened every pore, and its suscep- 

 tibility to cold has been excited to the utmost extent. In ventilating 

 stables it should never be forgotten that the health of a horse de- 

 pends on an abundant supply of fresh, dry air, introduced in such a 

 manner as to prevent a pcssible chance of a draught on any of its in- 

 mates. Many old stables may be greatly benefited by the introduc- 

 tion of a window or windows, which will require but little expenditure, 

 and save many a dollar's worth of horseflesh. 



Hay Tea. 



This is also refreshing for a tired horse. Fill a pail with the best 

 of clean, bright hay, and pour in as much boiling water as the pail 

 will hold. Keep it covered and hot fifteen minutes, turn off the 

 water into another pail and add a little cold water, enough to make 

 a gallon and a-half or so, and when cold feed it to the horse. 



