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supply nourishment to the body. Now, .a horse can live days, and 

 even weeks, without food, while he cannot live five minutes without 

 air. 



It is needless to enter into details as to the quantity of air a 

 horse breathes in any given time, as every intelligent reader has a 

 good idea of this ; but the fact that a horse will quickly die when 

 deprived of air-is not so forcibly impressed upon the mind. Now, it 

 is evident that if the blood is not oxygenated by means of pure air 

 passing to the lungs, the system will soon be poisoned ; thus it is 

 seen how necessary it is that there should be plenty of air in the 

 stable, and as pure and free from contamination as possible. If it 

 becomes impure in consequence of there being too many horses in 

 the stable, and also loaded with ammonia from the bedding, it can- 

 not properly purify the 

 blood or carry away 

 through the proper chan- 

 nels the broken-down, 

 worn-out particles of mat- 

 ter, and thus permit a 

 proper nutrition of the 

 body. Instead of this, all 

 the various conditions of 

 disease are engendered. 

 This is particularly notice- 

 able as the source of oph- 

 thalmia, grease, glandular 

 swellings, etc. Now, if pure 

 air were obtained only at 

 a great expense, it might 



be a reasonable excuse for not furnishing it in necessary abundance ; 

 but the fact that it is obtainable in all cases with a very little trouble 

 and -care, renders this neglect little less than a crime, for which 

 there should be no excuse or apology. 



An abundance of ventilation in stables may be supplied in vari- 

 ous ways, but the simplest and best is substantially as follows : A 

 chimney or opening through the ceiling may be made in the form of 

 a dome or cupola. The top should be roofed over, and have lateral 

 openings by means of weather-boards. The most convenient or 

 comfortable stable the writer has ever seen had such a ventilator, 

 which was so regulated that it could be partly or wholly closed, as 

 desired. This was accomplished by means of two cords attached to 

 opposite edges of a revolving door, and adjusted in the lower part 



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