NEW BEDDING FOR HORSES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1248, 16 February 1881, Page 2

NEW BEDDING FOR HORSES.

(" Turf, Field and Farm.")

Messrs D. C Newell and sons of this city are entitled to the thanks of all owners of horse stock for tho invention of a new bed for the stable, simple and cheap, and also valuable as a fertiliser. It is a well known fact that the ordinary bedding used in horse stables, from the odour emitted in hot weather, i 8 not only offensive from exhalations of ammonia, but it is a constant source of disease to the inmates of the stable. All sorts of subtitutes have been tried without avail, none having been successful in overcoming the evil. The bodding introduced by the Messrs Newell, and now used with the greatest success in their own stables, Enst Nineteenth street, is nothing more than ground shavings. It affords a better foundation for horses while standing than straw, sawdust, &c. ; it absorbs the urine completely ; and as an absorbent, prevents leakage, and waste in the stalls, dispenses with the use of drains, and eventually becomes a grand fertiliser, retaining all the ammonia and fructifying quality of manure in a concentrated form. These ground shavings also act as a dissnfectant, and avoid the tarnishing of coach varnish, harness, etc., so prevalent in all our stables. Mr. August Belmont has adopted the use of thin new bedding for his stables at Babylon L. 1., with great auccess, and we look back to see it in general use in » very short time. I