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room for the manure which falls from the cattle ; and the other 

 is, no man can leave the door open, for it won't stay open ; it 

 has either got to swing back or shut. So I would have the cat- 

 tle stand on the south side of the barn, and the manure falling 

 down in this way, it is easy of access, and as you work it over 

 in winter, you can throw it back into the cellar. You will have 

 plenty of room, and, at the same time, a good opportunity to 

 drop sand or muck on the spot where you would naturally work 

 the manure in working it over. 



Now, you will see that Mr. Hyde provides more conveniences 

 than that. He has got a chance for the cattle at the ends of the 

 barn in the cellar. I never would put any animal down in a 

 cellar. I am satisfied it is no place for an animal any more 

 than a man. You ought not to make an underground dwelling 

 for anything that is more finely organized than a woodchuck or 

 a skunk. A man cannot retain his vigor shut out from the sun, 

 and beasts cannot. You cannot keep a horse in a cellar and 

 keep him in good working condition, and it is so with all ani- 

 mals. They need air and light more than they need intense 

 heat ; and I am satisfied that it is imperatively necessary to the 

 preservation of their health that they should be stabled above 

 ground, where the damp vapors of the earth will not reach 

 them, and where they will have an abundance of ventilation, 

 and, what is more important still, to the animal as well as to 

 the plant, plenty of light. You cannot raise corn in your cel- 

 lar ; you cannot raise potatoes there. They must have light 

 just as much as heat, and animals require light just as much as 

 plants do. So, under no circumstances would I put my animals 

 underneath a barn, or in a barn-cellar, if there was any way of 

 preventing their freezing to death in a wooden structure built 

 above it. 



This, you may say, is all a whim, but it has been ascertained 

 to be a fact, by scientific investigation. Dr. George Derby has 

 just published an admirable paper on ventilation, in which he 

 shows, after careful investigation, that many diseases arise from 

 the want of proper provision to protect ourselves against the 

 dampness of the atmosphere that is all around our houses, and 

 especially in our cellars, and I have no doubt he is right about 

 it ; and when I tell you that an animal is organized as nicely as 

 we are, without the intellect to protect himself, you will see that 



