The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-12-29

Whom the aud the dew
And the breezes WOO,
With the gourd and the grape luxuriant grow.
So, when In tears
The love of years
Is wasted like the snow;
And the fine ibers Of Its life,
by word sharper than knife,
Are parted at a blow,
Within the heart
DO springs upstsrt ..
OF which 1t doth not know;
And strange sweet dreams,
Like those bright streams
That from new fountains overflow,
With the calm tide
OF rivers glide
Deep In the heart whose hope has died,
Qucnching the hres II ashes hide
It's ashes whence will spring and grow
Sweet flowers ere long
The and radiant flowers Of song.
ventilating Stables In view Of Preventing
Disease.
ny G. II. DADD, VS..
prevention Is cheaper than cure"
1t was the intention Of the Creator, that
all animals, so long as they were permitted
to exercise their natural instincts, and thus
comply with the requirements Of physiolo.
gy--science of liie-should enjoy health and
long life. Hence great amount Of disease
and death results from evils Of domestica.
ton.
One Of the conditions, which physiology
imposes, in order that \ horse shall enjoy
health, is that at all times, and under all
circumstances, the air shall be uncontami
mated, 20 that the blood shall he decarbon.
lied and purified Of the defling elements
acquired in the course of circulation.
Let the reader understand that the lungs
are something like sponge, elastic, com
posed of q myriad Of cells. In the former
however, these cells have a vast internal
surface, communicating with each other w
TO their common origin, the bronchial tubes
and wind.pipe. On their internal surface
we find delicate yet highly important mem
brane perlneable to atmosphere; in extent
it is supposed to occupy = square surface
equal to that Of the external body. In con
tact with this membrane comes the atmos
pherc. If purc-zephyr-like-ii fans into
healthiul blaze the fame OF life, uphcayinp
from the living Vesuvius arid lava, in tn,
fern Of carbonic acid gas, almost as de
strucliye to animality as that issuing lron
the great prototype to vegetation.
The stable atmosphere being pure and th'
lungs in working order, the blood is wei
artcriallzed, capable of supplying the vast,
of the animal machine and renoyating il.
/ tissues.
On the other hand should the atmospher,
/ be impure, it fails to vitalizc the blood tht
latter is unfit for the purpose OF nutrition
and may be considered nonsupporter o
vitality. Hence the need Of pure air, tn,
breath Of life.
But, are horses always furnished witt
pure air Let the owner of unyentilated
crowded, filthy, down cellar and low roofet
stables answer.
Let those who have stables in the regior
Of swamp, sewer, and stagnant pools OF wa
ter, answer.
In such locations disease and death run
stead of being within the ramparts of the
science Of life, is on the margin Of death
domain. lie may exist several days wthou
food and water; yet the consequent rcsul
is nothing when compared to that occasion
ed by breathing an atmosphere highl,
charged with emanations, arising from hi
own body, cxcrements, and decomposi0J
bedding.
A horse is said to consume in the lungs
in the course Of twenty -four hours, ninety
seven ounces of carbon, furnished by venou
blood in order to perform this feat he re
quires 100 cubic feet of oxygen. Now sup
pose there were ten horses occupying tn,
stable, they require in the same time l90'
cubic feet OF oxygen, and consume 81
ounces Of carbon. They are supposed, ais
to give out from the lungs volume Of car
bonic acid gas, equal to that OF oxygen in
spred; and snpposing the atmosphere /
be saturated with only five per centum @
the former, it is non. supporter of life.
Hence horse shut up in an unventilate
stable must sooner or later become tho sub
ject of disease; the evil may be postponed
but the day of reckoning is sure and certain
Diseases, such as, horse-ail, influenza, ca
tarrh, strangies and glandeys, often original
and prevail to an alarming extent in the un
ventilated stable and pest spots; while i
other locations, favorable to the free and fu
play Of vital operations, the favored one
seem to enjoy q remarkable immunity fror
the prevailing disease, or epizootic.
Stablcmen and husbandmen are often lc
to remark, that when they keep but few an
mails, disease and death, except in cases {
accident or old age, are quite rare, but S
soon as they cro1ded the same, sickness an
death were the consequences.
J In view of supporting this theory, ma
be permitted to remark that ship and ja
fcvers may be manufactured al Hbitun, q
any time when q large number of person
are congregated together in given space
no provision having been made for the ad
mission Of pure air. The unfortunate pr
soners in the Black Hole OF Calcutta are q
example, and the mortality occurring o
board our emigrant ships furnishes anothe
illustration. 4 800 iHa ,.rnHsT I
Z A number Of horses wero once shippc
from England to Spain, and on the passage
violent gale arising, it became neccssar
to batten do,cn the hatchway; the cons,
quence was that most of them ultimatel
died Of either gidndcrs or .tdrcy. conten
therefore that the active or morbid germ {
disease enters the living citidel through tn
pulmonary tissue, in an insiduous manner
and therefore much oftener than the gen,
rality Of men would be likely to realize
Therefore it is matter Of vital importnnc
that attention be paid to the ventilation {
our stables.
II proper sanitary regulations were cstat
! lished, and fully carried out in all our sta
blcs, glanders and other infectious disease
would be exceedingly rare they are SC
among horses free from the control Of men
whose stalls are broad as from ocean ,
ocean their height ranging from earth
regions above the space pcrvadcd by
pure atmosphere concocted by the Grea
Chemist, pure as the pcarly drops, and r,
freshing as the morning zephyr. In sue
locations death hath no terrors nor diseas
any victims. & i'. &C.,.
Therefore, cntrcat the husbandman
, vcntilate his stable and thus prevent unn
cessary disease.
A TEXAS JuDGE--Judgo Williamson {
hree.legged Willie, as he was famiarl
called, was one Of the early judges Of Texas