COOL STABLES RECOMMENDED. 9 
CHAPIER. IT. 
VENTILATION AND LIGHT. 
Light and air ecsentials—Cool stables the best—Stifling condition of certain 
stables ; its effects and attractiveness to those preferring looks to health— 
Mr. Burns and Dr. Southwood on the value of pure air and principles of 
ventilation—Another excellent authority and his arguments—Simple experi- 
ments in proof of my theory—Temptations to an opposite course and 
direful results—Extra clothing preferred to exclusion of air—Light equally 
necessary—A worn-out theory, ‘‘ the tinsel of glossy coats,” 
LIGHT and fresh air are essentials to the health of all domestic 
animals. Nevertheless, in olden times, when knowledge was 
limited, owners of horses used to, as in some instances, even in 
the present day (be it said to their folly) they do, shut up the 
animals in ill-built stables, low and narrow, in fact, insufficient 
in every dimension; air-holes too small, too few and im- 
properly placed, with small windows, made as though never 
meant to be opened. I have seen trainers in their zeal for 
the welfare of the animal, or his appearance, have the very 
keyhole stopped with a small wisp of hay or straw, and 
the outside of the doors barricaded, as if to resist an on- 
slaught of some terrible enemy—half embedded in dung 
suffered to remain till it has become in a high state of fer- 
mentation, disengaging deleterious gases—for the sole purpose 
of producing excessive heat, poisoning the circumambient 
air that beneficent nature has provided. 
