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However good these may appear in theory, it 

 is found that in some buildings the greatest diffi- 

 culty exists in procuring ventilation. Let the 

 arrangement and device be what it will, we shall 

 find that sometimes the air will refuse to come 

 in or go out through these scientific labyrinths, 

 and at others it ruthlessly traverses them in fit- 

 ful gusts, and deeply offends by going in an oppo- 

 site direction to that intended. 



The atmosphere is as insensible to human or- 

 ders, as the sea was to Canute and his flatterers. 

 Any number of shafts may be placed in a build- 

 ing, and all the arrangements named carried out, 

 but mortification will come at the end. And not 

 only mortification from an inability to carry out 

 practically details which are taught in theory, 

 but feeling of a more intense character, it may 

 be as disease continues to devastate the stock or 

 prolong the weakness arising from it. 



The writer has succeeded in efficiently ventila- 

 ting stables in the following manner. Where 

 disease and mortality had extensively occurred pre- 

 viously, it is gratifying to state immense improve- 

 ment took place. Coughs and colds, diseases of 

 the organs of vision and respiration, were reduced 

 to a minimum by the plan. 



In stables where ventilation is effected by 

 hollow bricks, &c., over the animaFs head, where 

 shafts are carried through a hayloft to the roof, 

 and other appliances exist, cold currents are apt to 

 go in the opposite direction, and thus produce 



