STABLING AND STABLES 



sary to secure comfort and the saving of time. 

 Good ventilation will do away with many of the 

 evils of bad drainage, and if both of these are per- 

 fect, the defects of exposure may be counter- 

 acted by verandas or awnings, and thickly lined 

 walls. Situation is unimportant if all the other 

 details are first class, and high land or low, wet 

 or dry, the building may be perfectly wholesome. 



Horses should always be stalled on the north 

 or west sides of a stable in order to escape the 

 effects of the sun which causes, by its heat, violent 

 and extreme variations in temperature during 

 each twenty-four hours, throughout all seasons of 

 the year. The animal will bear perfectly almost 

 any extremes of heat or cold providing it is 

 equable ; but neither his constitution, his clothing, 

 nor his attendance and environment can adapt 

 themselves to the rapid changes which our climate 

 assures from a southern or eastern exposure. 



No stable should ever accommodate in one 

 apartment more than twelve to twenty horses, for 

 the reason that if many of them in cold weather, 

 go out at the same time, the removal of so much 

 animal heat causes an immediate drop in temper- 

 ature, which the opening of various doors aug- 

 ments ; just as, in the heated term, the return of 



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