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nicnt. On the other hand, we may expect cold 

 air to find its way through, and falling upon the 

 head, produce a chilly stratum which gives rise to 

 sore throats and other affections. The writer is 

 aware of such a stable producing great damage 

 at times. One gentleman returned three horses 

 in succession to a dealer for ophthalmia, which 

 always appeared in a day or two after each new 

 animal entered the building. Proper arrangement 

 of the stalls and efficient ventilation prevented the 

 malady again appearing. Another stable, where 

 thirty farm horses were kept, was always productive 

 of tedious complaints. The cause was pointed 

 out but disregarded, and the result was total 

 blindness of every animal. 



A third stable, which is owned by a gentleman 

 who revels in a propensity for horse dealing in 

 addition to other professions, during the short 

 space of two years produced more sore throats, 

 chronic coughs, and absolute whistlers, than 

 many meet with in the course of a lifetime. 



Imperfect arrangement induces all kinds of 

 unsystematic and unscientific principles of clean- 

 liaess and ventilation. When cold air reverses 

 the order of currents, straw is at once stuffed into 

 the channel and another extreme brought about. 

 Thus one evil stalks in the train of another, and 

 we fail to recognise them frequently until too 

 late. But not uncommonly the results of such 

 imperfection tell upon the pockets of strangers, 

 and a greater hardship is perpetrated. 



