The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-06-18
PROPER
CARE Of STOCK
Ventilation of Stables Dis
cussed in Able Manner.
How the Home Of the Horse
Should be Aired to Pre-
vent Disease.

ter the housing of their stock in the
proper manner we print the follow
ing article on ventilation and stables
from Successful Farming, believing
that it will be of much interest to
our farmers:
Water, water everywhere but not
a drop to drink" sang the sailors
cast adrift on the briny ocean. and If
they could make themselves under
stood, our farm animals might give
similar expressions concerning the
air of their quarters after they have
breathed it over and over until it
is laden with Impurities and deprived
of its life-siving oxygen.
Air is just as indispensable to an
animal as is water. grain, hay. etc,
and. as matter of fact, an animal
can live several times as long without
either food or drink, or both, as il
can without air. And it is not just
air that they need. but a change of
air whereby the exhausted and pol
luted air is exchanged for new. fresh
air. 1t is so abundant about us and
we procure it usually so unconscious
ly that its necessity does not fully
impress us. The presence of pollut-
ed or exhausted air can only be de-
tected by breathing it for time and
for that reason it frequently goes
unnoticed in a stable until 1t reaches
an extreme degree. The only safe
method where large numbers of ami
mails are housed together in close
stables is to make ample provision
for the passage or air into and out of
the building.
Let us first consider what happens
to air when it is breathed by an ami
NAL and then we can better under
stand the question of ventilation.
The very fact that it is drawn into
the body and the forced out again
indicates that only a part of it is
used and the remainder Is discarded.
Oxygen is the valuable part and that
is the element separated out by the
lungs an dcarried throughout the
body. l never saw any oxygen, nei
ther did you. for it is an invisible,
colorless. odorless tasteless gas. Prac-
tically all fire is the result of the
combination of some element or ele-
ments with oxygen and you can very
soon put out a fire by depriving 1t of
oxygen. II you don't believe it, just
try lighting a candle and placing 1t
under glass jar which is inverted |
on a piece of glass or on a smooth |
surface. Place grease, paraffine. or
similar material around the edge of |
the jar so as to keep air from get |
ting into it and the fire will go out |
as soon as ii has burned up all the 1
oxygen in the air. In just the same .
way that a fire is smothered out by .
being depried of oxygen. an animal /
will smother unless oxygen is con-
stantly available.
How Respiration Affects the Air.
One effect of respiration is to re- !
move a portion of the oxygen from
the air taken in so that when it is
breathed out it contains less than a
normal percentage of that element
The lungs. however, practice re-
ciprocity and give something in re-
turn for oxygen received. The air
as it is exhaled contains carbon diox-
ide, ammonia. marsh gas. moisture,
bacteria, and various waste products
of the body. Unless the air about
an animal is constantly changing,
the animal is forced to draw back
into it's lungs the impurities pre-
viOusly exhaled and is deprived of
the necessary oxygen.
In addition to the impurities given
off by animals, the air in a stable
contains dust particles and often
germs of many kinds which have
multiplied in the litter and refuse.
These serve to further pollute the
air and increase the need for venti-
lation.
The moisture taken into the body |
with food and as drink must be re-
moved and large portion is given off .
through the lungs and skin in the |
form of invisible vapor. If you want
to get an idea of the amount of mois-
ture given off by COW, just hold a
piece of glass where she will breathe
upon it. Unless the air in the build !
ing is changed sufficiently often, il
becomes so damp that il interferes
with the action of the lungs and |
skin in performing their important
function.
Ventilation Removes Dampness
II is not uncommon 10 find drops
of moisture condensed upon the walls
floor and ceiling of a stable and il
s,NI