St. Landry Democrat

An English writer thinks one cause of the greater frequency of blindness in horses than in any other domesticated animals is the inconvenient position of the hayracks from which many of them have to feed. Placed, as these frequently are, high up on the stable wall, the horse must seek his fodder with raised head and outstretched neck, and its removal is accompanied by a shower of dust and small, sharp-pointed particles of chaff and seed which naturally fall into his eyes. Further causes of this very common affliction may be found in the pungent ammonia gases so freely diffused in ill-ventilated stalls, in the trying cross-lights common in stabling and in the indiscriminate employment of "blinders," which divert the line of vision from the natural direction.