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not SO liable in this state to fall constitutionally amiss, 

 as tliev would otherwise be likely to do from the dif- 

 ferent changes of the weather early in spring, at which 

 time many of them are pretty lusty. 



But the stables that young ones are first to occupy 

 on their leaving their paddocks, should be perfectly 

 cool. The windows and different apertures in the 

 walls and ceiling, should be kept open for the first ten 

 days or fortnight ; and when it is thought necessary to 

 increase the warmth of the stables, it should be done 

 very gradually, by closing a window at a time ; as it 

 would be extremely dangerous to subject young ones, 

 full of flesh, to the usual temperature of heat in a race- 

 horse stable. 



Having, in the preceding chapters, arranged the 

 stables, and in this, described how they ought to be 

 ventilated, I will, in the next, offer a few remarks upon 

 a disease by whicli, horses now and then become 

 affected, and which is, at times, occasioned by irregu- 

 larities, both in as well as out of the stables. 



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