A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT IN PROOF. 13 
very simple fashion. Remove a horse from a cold place to 
one much warmer, and, invariably, the result will be, he will 
cough ; a sufficient proof of the injury he receives. Reverse 
the process; take him from a warm to a cool stable and it 
is not so. 
The result of this easy experiment may seem paradoxical ; 
at variance with reason, if you will. Nevertheless it is true ; 
and, it may be admitted, is well worthy the consideration of 
-every owner or manager of a stable. Yet for one object—-_ 
looks—the simple lesson it teaches is wholly disregarded. 
Servants will willingly stake their own reputation, and their 
employer's interest, on what is here shown to be a fallacy. 
The temptation to do so, is comprehensible enough. The 
beautiful effect produced by a hot stable on the coats of its 
inmates, ensures unbounded admiration and lavish praise. 
But few, very few, know the many diseases of which it is 
the lamentable cause. In such a state, it may fairly be 
said, the horse is constantly shedding his coat, and as a 
necessary result becomes weak and enervated; in fact is 
in a state of disease rather than of health. 
There is reason in all things. No one should, to escape 
one extreme, blindly rush into another, and in order to 
avoid a stable too hot, have one too cold. But when the 
temperature is chilly, and your horses uncomfortably cold, 
supply additional clothing rather than close windows and 
air-holes, The latter expedient may improve their looks, but 
it is a poor object gained at the cost of appetite, condition, 
nay, more, not unoften the very animals themselves. 
What must men of scicnce, our veterinary surgeons, for 
example, and other reasonable persons, think on entering the 
stables of those adhering with such pertinacity to an exploded 
theory, the effete doctrine of a worn-out age? Yet whatever 
