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wind, but should be capable in summer of allowing each 

 cow one square foot of ventilating area. 



Again, taking the stable as our guide, we may regard the 

 windows as inlets and outlets, but to guard against any 

 possible closure of outlets, roof ventilation should be estab- 

 lished. It is quite likely the ordinary ridge and louvre 

 ventilation might prove too much in winter, as no louvre 

 will keep out driving snow, but the louvres can easily be 

 placed under control, or if preferred fixed extraction cowls 

 may be introduced. 



We anticipate every objection to this scheme, but from a 

 sanitary point of view it is correct, and if adopted we should 

 in course of time get rid of tuberculosis. Those whose 

 business it is to own and look after cows living under the 

 unnatural conditions which our civilization entails, will of 

 course disapprove entirely of either giving more air or Ijght, 

 but that does not affect the correctness of the above state- 

 ment.* 



Cubic Space. — As the question of cow-house ventilation 

 at present stands, the Local Government Board insists on 

 a minimum cubic space for certain cows ; the town or city 

 cow being allowed 800 feet, which is a smaller cubic space 

 than that for a sick man in a Poor Law infirmary ! 



When dealing with ventilation, the question of cubic space 

 for a cow was alluded to and theoretically placed at 1,600 feet. 

 We know perfectly well the horror this will be received 

 with by cow proprietors, and further we recognise how 

 greatly it adds to the cost of construction. If the chapter on 

 Ventilation be consulted, it will be observed that the value 

 of increased cubic space lies in the smaller number of times 

 per hour that the air needs to be changed. Bearing this in 

 mind, and the cost of construction, we regard the minimum 

 cubic space for a cow at 1,000 feet. This is more than the 

 Local Government Board requires, but the regulation as 

 it stands at present is peculiar, it takes no notice of the 



* The Eegulations of the Local Government Board prescribe that all 

 cow-houses, whether in town or country, shall be ' sufficiently ' lighted 

 and ventilated, but it does not state what ' sufficient ' is to consist of. 



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