Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-05-06
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
From Advance Sheets.
Copyright Secured
Continued from last 7Oeek.
XII.
ASSES AND MULES.

(6aud f1u es6lce 0lal) The little donleys used
the Midi of France are the part imported from Lombardy
Sardinia small sghmbed their produce from the mares
the country understood and light OF bone and can in no way
compared powerful magnificent animals which dealers
Langucdoc Bean and Spain come annually to purchase
Potion.
pack-sadde heavy draught
The male mule stronger bone than the female
and courage but less doce Nevertheless the female
twenty-five per than the male because in very
hot climates she is not subject which affect the
male, and she does require SO much care
Potou breeds and the IIaH the mule. About
bred every twods of which sold at one year DID, at
90 $50 francs each AS brought home they are
mountains Craze, and remain there until the
At the of winter they stabbed for
couple In the spring good many sold for eNPoa
ton Italy sold by the breeders four
five years old; three, few remain at six years
Spain imports annually six eight hundred saddle and car
ragcs mules of the very finest class direct from Poiou Spain also
imports lighter mules the Nthc value altogether with the
mportaion amounting upwards of kI2OOOO sterling
annually The total expectation from France 1871 exceeded
1900 head
"The begins work eighteen months years old
hardy than the horse but delicate in its food than
the The mucoa Poou born much stronger than the
horse-foal be difficult but this
surprising for the ignorant will not allow them to suck
freely the first milk dose them with white wine and OIL and some
times bleed them
To prepare them for they placed separate stalls
low hot -vcntated stables fed literally good hay 6afea
potatoes wheat barely and maize Cooked cruhcd) and
lCakc n order to
the dealers insist
Ahhough mules very rarely advisable
the males which otherwise become violent and vicious at certain
Of the year.
given preceding the Potou baHd and
the mucbeedng establishments OF PotOu of which he the
foundation (chchy attracted from elaborate work by NJ Eugene
Gayot because the mule valuable animal the West Indies
English colonies dependencies and has long been
successfully in the southern semiopca regions Of
the United States It. is essentially the animal for country of bad
scant herbage supply
mountainous sandy country and hot climate Under certain
circumstances the mule will endure PvaOns that would kill horse
but requires by people who understand his peculiar
The mule of little value without the mule driver Where he
wanted he takes his place naturally his position question
geography You do find him regularly work supersedng the
and the Flanders Normandy in New York
Boston, but after you pass Agnon he becomes familiar and rivals
the horse the Pyrenees Kentucky he part the stock Of
the and in California mules plentiful cosemongers
donkcys n London
The asses of Cyprus are much valued their strength and
docy they yellow color The mules finest the
Levant; a large Ashantce expedition
"Mues England accidents fancy stock fancy farms
They long bred used the home OF
nobemcn The late Lord Lconcd had of daugh
mules full hands high and very strong They sold Tat
tersas his death They still bred Badmnon
and four ridden by Positions used draw the hound 1t is
difficult discontinue any usage great estate The following
letter Mr. John Thompson the agent the Duke of Beaufort
inquiries addessed him by the writer of this chapter
gives late and authentic information the subject
Mules first introduced BadmintOn about seventy years
The Spanish Jack imported during the Pennsua
the mules by him large active
Three which she bred upwards I7H hands high
Mule have been chiefly home bred and
consequence the difficulty procuring rstclas Jacks imported
latterly We
habred Mares that the
powerful than the imported animals being larger the bone
greater had Jacks Malta Spain
but those from the latter country generally superior The mule
foals very hardy there being difficulty whatever rearing
Them and when grown up less expensive keep than horses
Orfin he mules