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the horses with a suitable quantity of fresh oxygenated air 

 for the purposes of respiration. This is easily done and at 

 very small cost, while the stable is in process of erection. 

 The best plan is to ran either a tin tube, or a wooden box 

 pipe, of the capacity of one square foot, through the whole 

 length of the head wall at the height of the horses' nostrils, 

 say four feet from the ground, open to the exterior air at 

 both ends, but protected from the entrance of vermin 

 by a guard of coarse, open wire gauze. From this pipe, 

 there should be bored diagonally upward, through the 

 boarding of the stall, six auger holes, each of one square 

 inch space, into each stall. This will afford to each horse 

 an ample supply of pure, fresh air, which, as it becomes 

 heated and impure, will arise, pass off by the ventilator, and 

 be succeeded by a constant stream of reinvigorating, vital 

 atmosphere, preserving both the temperature and the odor 

 of the stables even, agreeable and healthful, and adding 

 more of life and health to each animal that one could im- 

 agine possible, without an examination of the subject. The 

 whole of this system of ventilation may be added to a new 

 stable, or introduced into an old one remodelled, at a very 

 small price. In fact, the paving, heightening, draining and 

 adapting proper windows, doors and ventilators to an old 

 stable, if so situated as to be capable of improvement, or 

 the introducing all these as additions, into a new one, the 

 site of which can be selected with a view to them, will not. 

 with reasonable economy, by any possibility exceed a couple 

 of hundred dollars for a stable capable of containing from 

 four to six horses ; and undeniably, the owner of horses 

 Avho will try it will find that, at the end of twenty years 

 of horse-keeping, he will be an actual gainer of twenty 

 times two hundred dollars. We will here add, that for 

 country stables there is no better than a good, framed build- 

 ing, rather loosely weather-boarded externally, lined at 



