Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-28
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Y strong, and their appetite ia easily salts
fed. In the absence Of It's usual corn
and blade fodder Il will most contchted.
ly make u meal Of tho bark Of a tree cui
| for the purpose on the roadside whcr'
I the driver camps nj night after twenty
Eve miles Of heavy pulling, with no bed
but tho ground and no roof but the
ntarry infinite above. In cold and heat.
/ rain or snow, IN mud or over rocks. II
wcnds It's way without break or ma oh.
lection. AMI brays for It's coarse fodder
and eats It with excellent appetite wher.
ever II may stop for its short rest
The mule Is no racer, but II may be
trained 10 travel under the saddle or In
light harness at u very good speed. and
II will maintain rs pace for ten or
twelve hours with more stcndiness than
y horse. It's compact build makes u the
best puck nuimal. Tho horse can mako
a moro vigorous effort on the spur Of
the moment. but cannot maintain
slow. doggod energy like the mule. It
requires moro food, and that OF better
quality. Where Quick worl; for n short
time is wanted the horse beats the mule,
but for tho slow draft and unchnnging
toll the mule Is the more useful.
a mule is kept one.half more choaply
than horse. II may bo fed on blade
fodder aud few ears Of corn day after
day without any change, and win do
more work on this coarse fare than q
horse OF 200 pounds more weight. This
character is 20 well fixed that In tho
south. where all tho hard work is done
by mules, mule Of 1000 pounds Is
worth 800 or $3.50 more than horse of
the same weight, and for smaller animals
the value IS $50 in favor Of the mule
For few years past have been rear
ing young mules aud horses. and while
tho colts got tho best hay and moro
grain tho mules get corn fodder. tho
coarse hay and fow corn'oars. An ac-
curnto account Of tho cost of feeding tho
two kinds Of animals up 10 three years
old shows that the mule may bo reared
for half the cost Of n horse colt. 4 pair
OF small mules cost mo less than twenty
dollars year for the two years they
were fed, and they lived during tho
summers In wood lot and cost nothing
for their pasture. A mule will live
where horse will starve, and when ont
Of work enjoys the coarse feeding Of the
woods When tho horses come 10 the
gate and wait TO be brought home for
their feed, tho mules have 10 be hunted
up, and bells arc put on them so that
they may DO found.
On tho whole. am very suro that
pair OF mulcs will do twice as much
work as pair Of horses the same size
or somewhat larger, at half the cost Of
feed and other expenses. This takes
into account tho feeding. the work aud
the longer life, Much Is said about tho
III nature OF q mulo. This Is unde-
served. Its frequent viciousness is
taught TO II by III treatment and general
bad management. A mulo will mover
kick unless II has been taught. except In
frolicking when young, II Is really
aifectionate and good naturcd, and
when otherwise II gives only what It
gets. When kindly treated from the
first by those who rear 1t, the mule will
DO kind, docilo and even affoctionate.--
Henry Stewart in American Agricul-
turist.