HORSK MANAGEMENT IN INDIA. 



tible to many diseases, and to pneumonia among the rest, 

 but they will bear impure air even better than cold 

 draughts blowing directly upon them. I have repeatedly 

 observed that the slightest cold contracted by a horse kept 

 in a draughty stable has almost invariably been succeed- 

 ed by pneumonia, and, that if the animal was not re- 

 moved to a more comfortable situation, the disease tend- 

 ed to a fatal termination." 



Grooms in England have a strong prejudice in favour 

 of warm stables, on account of the good effect they 

 have on the animals' coats, while these men naturally 

 ignore the increased susceptibility to catching cold, which 

 horses kept in such places acquire, as well as the very 

 marked tendency the legs and feet have of " going to 

 pieces ; " for a horse, that is laid up with a cough, or a 

 tilled leg, gives far less trouble to the groom, than one 

 which is in full work. In winter, horses undoubtedly 

 thrive better in comfortable stables than in cold bleak 

 ones. The owner, trainer, or groom can personally sa- 

 tisfy himself as to the proper degree of warmth by 

 regulating it according to what he would consider 

 agreeable to his own feelings, were he to make the 

 stable his own abode ; always remembering that its at- 

 inosphere should be pure, and free from the slightest 

 suspicion of " closeness." 



With hard-worked animals such as race-horses, 

 &c. I have found the best results attend the practice of 

 keeping the stables moderately dark, in order to induce 

 the occupants to lie down, and, during hot weather, to 

 keep the abode cool, by preventing the admission of 

 rays of light, which are always accompanied by rays 



