392 NEGLECTED COMFORT &C. OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
measure upon a varicose condition of the veins, called to shew that 
it had perfectly recovered by the application of the remedies and 
advice given, although it had baffled all those to whom he had 
previously applied during the protracted period the disease had 
existed. 
Extracts from Domestic and Foreign Journals, 
Veterinary, Medical, and Agricultural. 
The Neglected Comfort and Health of Domestic 
Animals. 
By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq., F.R.S. 
[ From, the “ British Farmer's Magazine ” for April 1845.] 
That the profit derived from the farmer’s domestic animals is 
very generally and very materially reduced by a disregard of the 
medium in which they are placed, is a conclusion which most of 
the principal farmers of our country are gradually adopting. Al- 
though this is a desirable conviction, it is hardly ever that the 
majority of small farmers pay much attention to the temperature 
in which their poor beasts are placed, or the state of the yards or 
buildings in which they are confined ; although it is certain that, 
by a neglect of these considerations, very serious losses are sus- 
tained. If the temperature is too low, the amount of the food 
which the animal consumes is very considerably increased ; and 
yet its fatness does not, under these circumstances, keep pace with 
the amount of provender which it requires. 
If, on the other hand, due regard is paid to the temperature the 
most favourable to the animal’s health, it has been proved by seve- 
ral very carefully conducted experiments, that not only is the con- 
sumption of food diminished , but, at the same time, the weight of 
the animal increases in a still more remarkable manner. 
The neglect of the temperature of the air, is not the only com- 
mon error into which the keeper of live stock is led. He is in 
general as little acquainted with the ill effects produced upon all 
animals by the impurity of the air which they are too often com- 
pelled to breathe. It is even a popular delusion in some districts, 
that the more dirty pigs are kept, the better they thrive ; and 
where horses are kept, that the ammoniacal fumes with which the 
atmosphere of ill- ventilated stables is saturated, is neither preju- 
dicial to the health of the horses, nor to those who have the care 
