The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-05-22
RAISING MULES.

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|, They can be raised cheaper /
than any other stock.
,. llgo into the market soon
err than horses.
3. they are marketable any |
time from weaving time Qour
months old until incapacitated by
old age.
4, Are less liable TO contract dis.
ease than the horse.
3. Pasture a number of colts
through the grazing season and
you will find plenty of blemishes
at feeding time. Mules prove the
contrary and have few, If any,
blemishes, and their value is not
decreased by blemishes, as horse.
6. They are easy to raise, easy
TO sell and hard to blemlsh,
l. They instinctively avoid
holes and dangerous places. A
team OF runaway mules seem to
run more for sport than fright, and
usually stop before damage is done,
while a horse mover stops until he
is completely freed.
s. The mule is more steady
when at work than the horse, less
nervous and is not so liable to be-
come exhausted, and often becomes
so well instructed and trusty as to
need no driver or lines.
8. Can stand heat better than
the horse, are steady and can be
relied upon,
10. Can stand more abuse and
hardship than horse, but will
respond as quickly as the horse TO
good feed and kind treatment.
IL. The profit in Embarrassing is
their quick growth. Are market
able at three years old. A horse colt
cannot be sold to an advantage un-
til five. So the expense of two
years feeding and handling is
saved.
u. No kind OF horse-flesh is
more stable in price, excepting
thoroughbreds or fancy specimens.
VIII bring more per pound upon
the open market or cost less 10 pro-
duce in the actual value OF food
consumed and time and labor re-
quired.
10. There is always steady de-
mand for good mules, A buyer
will always handle them. II there
are plenty OF mules raised in Sec
ton 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 wal
in any county mules are always
picked up at high price and very
highly priced. Why? Because they
must have them. They endure all
kinds OF hardships.
| II Buyers make money by buy.
ing at weaving time, and by pas
turing and feeding eighteen months
have them ready for the market
| Can be raised and handled as east
ly as a lot OF cattle and sheep.
10. One steer will eat as much
as team of mules. A good steer
at three years old is worth $40 OIL
S75. A team OF mules at the same
age good one) will sell from $25(
to $500, having eaten no more feed
l6, Feed the same amount to {
bunch Of mules that you do to you
hogs and see which will make yol
the most money.
II. A good COW, fed to make
butter, will consume as much oil
more feed than a team OF mules
from the time dropped until tire,
years old,
IS. AS for line animals, they
can not be beaten, and are beinl
used on the farms more extensive
ly for this purpose. Also in gu
large cities are being used exclu
sively for draying and heavy stree
work, standing the wear OF thu
hard streets twice as long as q
horse.
10. AS they will not breed they
were created for special purpose
and that is, as true, honest, oura
able and valuable workers, takin,
the place OF a team of horses ant
lasting much longer.
90. The reader will probabl,
say: "Why are not more muleI
raised" Simply because in mos
localities there are no jacks t
breed to. Good mules cannot bt
raised unless you breed to a gooC
jack. II farmers could sell year
ling horse colts at $50 each the,
would be willing to buy all til,
stations in sight at good prices
Then why should they hesitate tC
buy jacks when jack has -four
times the service OF a horse in hi
natural life and lives to be almost
twice the age of a horse?