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to the mind, and we may add, by a custom so prejudicial 
to his health, and productive of loss to the owner. 
Such a course of procedure has been protested against 
over and over again, and the author has done well in 
bringing this subject before the public in the prominent 
way he has. 
The advantages to be derived from keeping horses in 
loose boxes, instead of stalls, is obvious to all reflecting 
minds, and the surprise is that stalls should be erected 
at ail, except, perhaps, in bait stables. 
Aspect of the stable .—The author, to our surprise, 
considers a northern aspect preferable to a southern one. 
To this opinion we are inclined to demur. Only a short 
time since we had occasion to inspect a gentleman’s stable 
which fronted the north, and the dreary, chilly appearance 
of everything we noticed particularly attracted our atten¬ 
tion. The owner also felt quite conscious of this defect, 
and informed us that he intended to have the buildings all 
pulled down, as he considered his horses had never done 
well since they had occupied them. 
With regard to the admission of the sun’s rays, and the 
annoyance of flies and other insects, alluded to by the 
author, these can, to a very great extent, be obviated by the 
use of “ Venetian shutters,’’ which would sufficiently darken 
the stable when needed, and at the same time allow plenty 
of air to pass into the interior of the building. There is 
certainly one half of the year when the warmth imparted by 
the sun’s rays would be agreeable, and also conducive to 
health. Did space permit, it .would be easy to point out 
the benefits to be derived to animal as well as vegetable life 
from the influence of light and warmth. The task, how¬ 
ever, would be much easier to expatiate upon the evils 
arising from the absence of such health-giving powers. 
Height of the interior of the stable .—The author asserts 
that no stable should be more than ten and a half feet high; 
also “that a stable forty feet long, nineteen feet wide, and 
ten feet high, cannot be efficiently ventilated, and at the 
same time retain a genial temperature under every change of 
circumstance.’’ Now, in our opinion, no stable ought to 
be less than ten and a half feet high from the floor to the 
