Dark Stables

There are too many miserably dart horse stables wheu il is so well "kncwti that light exercises a most importaut and salutmy influence on th whi H8 well as vegetable kiqgdom. to apt tothink that any place wiil do for i atable tlial i-s sufficiently círy, ; the ouiy opening for the admiBsion o1 light be fbe entering door. This is all wrong. The pye of the horse is an exceediugly seiimtive organ and alwayssuffoj-s frum long continurd dai wbeu trom partial sickno.-s or disuse 1 f; t a longer tinre tlian usual within doors, or in tables wbere ti;e bxo.ul ligbt of rlay is (-xcludod. aioBi aiseases to which tlie anima! is sulijeet are more virulent in dark atables tiiui win re ;i nood of ligbt can bo adwitted. Darkness is suid to tavor rest and sleep, and this isVioubtk'ss tnie, but it ca:. be of no poasible bent fit to the :. duiing those long huurs of wnkeful in oarceration, to which it is gou etiiu a Bubjected, unless it be to enable the j to take advanlage of the effect. A norse brouglit from a dark stuble into the of the Bunlight, is coufusert mul st; i'rom th imperfect visión of the siirroundiiifr objects, and by his liigh und uncertaiii action, iuipresses the noviop with au ideii of lns spirit and net ion. Even thongb fot may b induced by dnrknesp, it is not couducive oï muscular strengtfa ; for mus ;les deprivi d of tho stimulus of ligkt, bicorne flaccid an : apparent high fcondiriou indiiccd by thie raeans, is soon lost by fictive excrtii.n Men wii ise einploy menta conüne them to poorly lighted apartments, soon lose the color and tbu entrgy of full health, and the Sttuiö reRults follaw similar treatment of animáis. Ligbt and thorongh ventilation, should be the governing points in the eructiou of stabling for all don animáis, and particularly the horau. Pacijle Jiunil Pret.