The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-05-21
Railing Mules.

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is worth reproducing in full as fol
lows:
I. They can be raised cheape
than any other stock.
II. Will 60 into the marke
sooner than horses.
III. They are marketable any
time from weaning time (fou
months old) until incapacitated b!
old age.
". Are less liable to contrac
disease than the horse.
V. Pasture a number of colt'
through the grazing season anc
you will find plenty of blemishe
| at feading time. Mules prove the
contrary and have few, If any
blemishes, and their value is not
decreased by blamishes, as a horse
VI. They are easy to raise, easy
., sci! and hard to blemish.
VII. They instiDctly avoid holes
and dangerous places. A team OF
runaway mules seem to run more
for sport than frighr, and usually
stop before damage is done, while
a horse never stops until he is conf
pletsly freed.
VIII. The mule is more steady
when at work than the horse, less
nervous and is not 80 liable to be-
come exhausted, and often be-
comes 80 we'll instructed and trusty
as to need no driver or lines.
TX. Can stand heat better
than the horse, are steady and can
be relied upon.
x. Can stand more abuse and
hardship than horse, but will re-
spond as quickly as the horse to
good feed and kind treatment.
XI. The profit in mule~raising
is their quick growth. Are mar
ketable at three years old. a
horse colt cannot be sold to an ad'
vantage until five: So the expense
of two years feeding and handling
is saved.
XII. No kind Of horse-feah is
more stable in price, excepting
thoroughbreds or fancy specimens.
Will bring more per pound upon
the open market or cost less to
produce in the actual value OF food
consumed and time and labor re-
quired.
XIII. There is always q steady
demand for good mules. A buyer
will always handle them. If there
are plenty Ct mules raised in Sec
tion Of a country there will be
plenty of mule buyers. Mule buy
ers are not going where there are
NO mules to buy. In time Of war
in any country mules are always
picked up at high price and very
highly priced. Why? Because
they must have them. They en-
dure all kinds of ha,dships.
XIV. Buyers make money by
buying at weaning time, and By
pasturlng and feeding eighteen
months have them ready for the
market. Can be raised and ham
died as easily as lot Of cattle and
sheep.
t.. XIV. One steer will eat as much
as a team of mules. A good steer
at three years old is worth $40 or
S75. A team Of mules at the ssme
age (good ones) will sell from $3.50
to $780,: having eaten no more
food.
XVI, Feed the same amount to
bunch of mules that you do to
your hogs and see which will make
YOU the most money.
XVII. A good COW, fed to make
butter, will consume as much or
more food than a team Of mules
from the time dropped until three
years old.
XVIII. As for line animals,
they cannot be beaten, and are be.
ing used on the farms more ex-
tensiyely for this purpose. Also
IN our large cities are being used
exclusively for draying and heavy
street work, standing the wear of
the hard streets twice as long as d
horse.
:, XIX. As they will not breed
they were crested TOR special pur.
pose, and that ia, as true, honest,
durable and valuable workers.
taking the place Of team of horses
and lasting much longer.