CHAPTER IIL 



ON VENTILATION. 



Having, in the preceding chapters, pointed out all 

 the arrangements necessary for an establishment of 

 public training stables, I shall now treat on a very 

 important point, that of ventilation. 



One of the principal objects to which grooms should 

 pay the most scrupulous attention, is that of the health 

 of their horses ; indeed, they have discovered that this 

 object is, in a great measure, to be attained by keeping 

 their stables much cooler than they formerly did ; yet, 

 as there may be some of the old school, who still ad- 

 here to the former practice, (that of hot stables,) I shall 

 make a few observations on the impropriety of their so 

 doing. 



It was formerly the common practice among grooms, 

 in the winter and spring, to regulate the temperature of 

 the stables agreeably to their own feelings ; and it was 

 their custom, (at least, with those I lived under.) if the 

 weather was at all cold, to have the long dung laid at 



