The gentleman's stable guide : containing a familiar description of the American stable; the most approved method of feeding, grooming and general management of horses; together with directions for the care of carriages, harness, etc. . nearer the ground by the doors and windows, andregisters placed in the walls. These registers or louvres aremade on the same principle as those in dwellings where fur-naces are used. Instead of a multiplicity of tubes in a stablecorresponding to the number of horses, one will answer, ifof sufficient capacity and properly placed, with its mouth 34 AMERICAN STABL
The gentleman's stable guide : containing a familiar description of the American stable; the most approved method of feeding, grooming and general management of horses; together with directions for the care of carriages, harness, etc. . nearer the ground by the doors and windows, andregisters placed in the walls. These registers or louvres aremade on the same principle as those in dwellings where fur-naces are used. Instead of a multiplicity of tubes in a stablecorresponding to the number of horses, one will answer, ifof sufficient capacity and properly placed, with its mouth 34 AMERICAN STABLE GUIDE. entering into the stall through the ceiling. Thus it willbe seen that when one of these ventilating shafts is inplace, a constant current is. kept up between it and theregisters below. This ventilator is of wood, made like asquare funnel, carried up through the hay-loft or upperportion of the stable and the roof to the outside, and to pre-vent a down draught of air, snow, or rain, a cowl,^ some-times called an archimedian ventilator, turning with thewind, is placed on top of the end of the shaft. For thispurpose, one made of wood, and covered with sheet tin orzinc, like the pattern here represented, will answer all pur-. Head of Shaft. poses. It will be readily recognised from its shape, sooften seen in many parts of the country upon the roofs ofbuildings. In a badly-ventilated stable, in the fall or spring of theyear, its inmates will be fevered and sick. Coughs, colds,lung fever, scratches, grease, influenza, farcy, glanders,and other zymotic afiections, are some of the concomi-tants of impure air in ill-ventilated places. Pure air is soindispensable to animal life, that a high condition of health VENTILATION. 35 cannot long be maintained without its agency. The BlackHole, at Calcutta is an admonition in favor of proper orsufficient ventilation. The horses which were confined only for a few hours onboard of ships in the military expeditions, sent out by theBritish go
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