58 STABLE MANAGEMENT. 



AIR AND VENTILATION. 



Stables. 



Nothing is worse for horses than close, ill-ventilated 

 stables, and in India, where they are made out of 

 such cheap material as mud and sun-dried brick, 

 there is no excuse for their being too small. In 

 some of the newer houses, stables are made out of 

 burned brick ; but I prefer the older ones of mud or 

 sun-dried brick, as the walls are generally thicker, 

 and this makes them cooler in the summer and 

 warmer in the winter. It is also of importance 

 that they should not be too low, but of the two 

 evils I should prefer a small stable with a lofty 

 roof to a larger one with a low one, provided there 

 was ventilation in the top. Every stable should 

 have a good deep verandah round it ; it not only 

 keeps off the sun in the summer, but is useful to 

 put bedding, etc., in during the rain. If there is no 

 verandah, one can be easily made with the flat straw 

 screens used by natives, called "jamps," and bamboo 



