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Our cut in this number will illustrate one mode 
of ventilation. The windows above admit the 
escape of the ascending warm air, charged with 
carbonie acid. They are attached by hinges, and 
may be opened and shut wholly or in part, at plea¬ 
sure. This method has a double advantage; it 
ventilates and brings the light into the stables 
from above. If there be a hay-loft over the 
stables, this method cannot be adopted ; in such a 
case there should be flues to carry off the carbonic 
acid and noxious gases. For this purpose, tubes 
may be passed through the hay-loft to the roof, 
or holes may be made in the walls at the top of 
the ceiling of the stables. Whatever may be the 
form of stables, one of these modes may and should 
be adopted. 
To secure the admission of fresh air, windows 
are necessary. There should be one with a 
shutter at the head of each horse. These should 
be used constantly in line weather. In addition, 
there should be windows so placed near the floor, 
as to admit a full supply of air at all times, and 
yet not directly in upon the horses, who should 
be protected in bad and cold weather, and when 
heated from currents. This can be effected by admit¬ 
ting the air at a distance from the horses, and giving 
it a direction that will bring it indirectly to them. A 
screen of boards opposite the inlet will do this. In 
flne weather, all the means of bringing in fresh air 
should be used ; and most especially the windows in 
each stall. The current of air right on to the head 
and neck is less injurious than on to the loins. 
When, however, the weather is too cold to admit 
their use, the stables will be sufficiently ventilated by 
the window, which will admit it for all, provided 
there be outlets to permit the escape of the carbonic 
acid and the gases. In cold weather there is less need 
of ventilation below , as the pure air is denser, and at 
equal volumes contains more oxygen than when 
warm. The inlet may then be small, and yet the 
stable be equally sweet, as the breathed air ascends 
more rapidly. 
Such are the general principles of ventilation. 
They may be adapted to every stable; and will be, 
by every owner of horses, who regards his interest 
and is humane. 
Fig. 73. 
Affleck also took out a fine lot of assorted poultry, 
such as Dorking and Poland hens, African geese, 
ducks, &c.; some dogs ; and a high grade Devon bull 
Sale of Rambouillet Sheep— We have sold 
the entire flock of Rambouillet sheep, belonging to 
Mr. David C. Collins of Hartford, Connecticut, to 
Mr. L. G. Bingham, of Williston, Vermont. We 
expect that they will pass through this city on their 
way to their new home, early this month ; we shall 
then take a look at them, and speak ot them as we 
may think they deserve. We have not seen the 
flock for about two-aud-a-half years. We shall 
find this one thing at least about them, and that, is, 
they are pure Merinos, and precious blood runs in 
their veins. Mr. Bingham tells us that he shall 
not sell any ewes from this flock at present, but 
will spare two or three of the young bucks this' 
fall, if wanted by any one. The price will be 
from $50 to $100 each. Those desiring the same 
will hereafter please address Mr. Bingham, or if 
more convenient they can apply at our office. No. 
187 Water st, N. Y. 
Sheep for the South. —Thomas Affleck, Esq., 
of Washington, Miss., has recently been among us 
jo select a flock of sheep for his plantation, being 
convinced that they can be bred to as great advantage 
at the South, as here at the North. He took 46 head 
in all—15 of the Leicester and Coiswold breed, and 
31 of the Saxony and Merino. To these he will pro¬ 
bably add a fine flock of Saxony and Merinos, to be 
selected in Washington County, Penn. Some of the 
animals selected here, had taken prizes at the State 
Agricultural Society show, and others at that of the 
American Institute. They are valuable animals, and 
we trust that Mr. Affleck will meet with that success 
which his enterprise merits. Sheep can be supported 
for almost nothing in the pine woods and some ether 
lands of the south ; and many are sanguine, and we 
fully believe, that a pound of fine wool can be as 
cheaply produced there, as three pounds of cotton. 
The former will be worth from 30 to 40 cents on the 
plantation* the latter 15 to 18 cents only,. Mr. 
Benefit of Subsoil Plowing.— A farmer from 
Connecticut informs us, that he has raised a field 
of corn the past summer, which he thinks will 
average 80 bushels to the acre, and that he selected 
half an acre of the best, from which he gathered 
134 bushels of ears, all sound and well filled out. 
That while his neighbors’ corn adjoining was 
withering with the drouth, his was luxuriant; and 
he attributes the whole of his success to subsoil 
plowing. Another fact he stated was, that the 
whole expense of planting, cultivating, and har¬ 
vesting after the ground was plowed, did not ex¬ 
ceed $3 per acre ; that he did not touch it with a 
hoe, but worked it with a harrow and cultivator; 
and what few weeds were not reached with these, 
about the hills, were pulled up by hand before 
going to seed. We intend to visit his farm next 
summer, when we shall have something further to 
report. 
