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water. When he js a little cooled, two or three quarts may be 
given to him, and after that his feed. Before he has finished 
his corn, two or three quarts more may be offered. He will 
take no harm if this is repeated three or four times during along 
and hot day.* 
VIIL—GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 
1. Air.—We have spoken of the necessity of ventilation, 
Hear what that great authority, Youatt, says: 
“If the stable is close, the air will not only be hot but foul. 
The breathing of every animal contaminates it; and when in 
the course of the night, with every aperture stopped, it passes 
again and again through the lungs, the blood can not undergo 
its proper and healthy change; digestion will not be so per- 
fectly performed, and all the functions of life are injured. Let 
the owner of a valuable horse think of his passing twenty or 
twenty-two out of the twenty-four hours in this debilitating 
atmosphere! Nature does wonders in enabling every animal 
to accommodate itself to the situation in which it is placed, 
and the horse that lives in the stable-oven suffers less from it 
than would scarcely be conceived possible: but he does not, 
and can not, possess the power and the hardihood which he 
would acquire under other circumstances. 
“The air of the improperly close and heated stable is still 
further contaminated by the urine and dung, which rapidly 
ferment there, and give out stimulating and unwholesome 
vapors. When a person first enters an ill-managed stable, and 
especially early in the morning, he is annoyed not only by the 
heat of the confined air, but by a pungent smell, resembling 
hartshorn; and can he be surprised at the inflammation of the 
eyes, and the chronic cough, and the rlisease of the lungs, by 
which the animal, who has been all night shut up in this vitiad 
ted atmosphere, is often attacked; or if glanders and farcy 
should occasionally break out in such stables? It has been 
ascertained by chemical experiment that the urine of the horse 
* Youatt. 
