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the street more or less during the day or night, he 

 should not be kept in a warm stable, and should not be 

 blanketed in the stable; but this is a great mistake. 

 Horses do best when kept thoroughly warm in the 

 stable, although they are exposed to great cold outside 

 of it. There is such a thing as storing up heat in an 

 animal's frame, or at least there is such a thing as a 

 slight excess of warmth indoors to make up for a defect 

 in bodily heat outside. The Eskimo and the Russian 

 people live in exceedingly warm houses, and for that 

 reason are better able to withstand the cold outside. 



WATERING TROUGHS 



Great care should be taken to keep the watering 

 trough in the stable clean, and In places where the 

 disease of glanders Is as prevalent as it is in our 

 eastern cities, the watering trough should be a box 

 containing one or more pails, or receptacles in the 

 shape of pails, so arranged that the water flows in at 

 the bottom of the pail or receptacle, washes over the 

 whole top or rim, and so escapes to the trough or box 

 containing the pails and then out by a waste pipe. In 

 this way each horse practically has a pail to himself, 

 and thus the danger of one horse communicating 

 glanders to another is nearly or quite obviated. The 

 same result could, of course, be obtained, and more 

 certainly, by having a separate, numbered pail for each 

 horse, filling the pail at the trough or faucet and carry- 

 ing It to the horse; but perhaps this would involve more 

 time and labor than could be afforded In a large stable. 



In case Infection from glanders is to be feared, the 



