A Short Sermon On Stables

Jlifijipn JUgiis. r?intlte AmcricAD UTtcolturist. i he recent ïinprovements 111 Améncnn architecture havo not rwaclied the atable, U tho extent tbat couid be desired. Hrnwn stone fronte, t h eeilinijs, inarble mantel pieces, ooÜy furiiaees lor warming and ventiltilfog eiio dweiling, rnay pieuse the eye ai;d plomóte t ho health and comfort f the ici;iip:iiitrt, hilo toe viiluablu horsen al tiie pi'íiprietor are Bufferirig frohi a fmorly C()iis:ructet) andpoorly ventiluted Hable. Tlití fi.ult often lies in two direotions. Tlie utab'o muy bo too tijht, or too open. A hors neédfl Mght, as weil as HÍr ,'im! stiir.ablo uarmüi nut Jood - the vegetable siructure hurdly needs lilit nio thn lie dous. Pupo uir is eential. ííis blood c;in not beeome [itirifterl while the air which ínflales liis lungH is l'ull of loul games frorn fenncntinj; manares. Nor is it enongh xo keep the ttills clean, if they aro so tjght that ihe horse ís ubliged to breath his own breath over and over again Digestión is inteifered with, and a!l the fynct;onsof lile are impeded. Lazy grooms declare th t i close, warm fiable, heljis to iiüike a horse's coat fine rad glossy n Winter as a i raSummer. lint in Winter, Hiich a oal is not t be iloairwd. Naturia próvidos tho animal with lunyer huir and inore ( f it, to iJef'eiid' 'lim írom the cohl. If' the liorsu is we] groomed and blanketed, feis huir ivill be smo(.tii and glossy enoujíh all the year round. Tho indolent proom ought liirnself to bo tihiu up for twen'v tour hotifS in the hot ete;irriiiiï air il] wh cd he confines his ma8iei'.s horse, and seo hovv he would üke it. Oten the (ioor oí uel a statile in the morning, vvhere soveral horsi-s are kept, and tho hot air and the heurtshorn are ahncmt suffi:ent to knock ii man down. VVhat wonder, then, that hoives to nsed, shouJd sutiec froin influmed eye., oniigh, glandern and oihcr ailmontx! Tho wónder is that they bear the abu.se so long and o well." Now, tho ' improvement " to our enmn is eimply thin: ventílate th.r iiablfí. Ventílate, both in Winter and Sumiller. rJ'ho outer air slu.iild be brought in rit certain places near the floeri bul not in the inmediato neightxii'hnod of the horse, sn as to cui.-e bnrlíul drafta ol wind iininediately pon hiin. Impuro air must bo ejycted, au well as pure air brOUght in. This cun be done in Sumnvep very well by leavincf severa 1 windows open in different parts of tho brn. Buta beter way is to insert ventilators in the tho highest partn of. the building, into wtiii-h venid uets, (?q:iiro wooden tabes.) shiill load (rom the stalls, and vrhich cm be oponed or closed at p'easure. These ventilators ?ho:ild be covered wiih a ca, to prevent down ward eurrents and the beultng in of rain. By this plan, the fonl air is car ried oiï directty trom the stal! without nakiiog wnh tho hav in rht? ío-ít-, i - Hl m