The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-12
THE MULE FUTUR|Ty
IN TENNESSEE AS
SEEN BY il. JONES
THE WELL KNOWN COLUMBIAN
TALKS INTERESTINGLY OF
THE PROSPECTS.
TENNESSEE FIRST IN PRODUCT
An Injunction to the Breeders to
Pull Together for the Greatest Mule
Show In the History Of the Animal
Exhibitions of This Country.


Exhibitions of This Country.
In speaking Of the Inauguration OF
the mule futurity few days ago at
a meeting of the jack and mule men
at the State Fair grounds, J. l.. Jones
said:
The mule interest being the great.
est in Tennessee needs reviving ana
putting on higher plane. She de
serves to go into the front rank, as
it is believed the climatic influences,
the limestone water, feeds and even
atmospheric conditions of the state
win produce the best mules to be had
anywhere, Tennessee stands first as
to price and quality Of all the mule
raising states Of the union; Kentucky
is second and Missouri is third. At
the last general reckoning the Ten
nessee mule was put at an average
value of$112 each, Kentucky at sos
and Missouri at $104. Her 2S0.0eO
mules were valued at s35,0O0,00O tall
figures in round numbers), and she
GOULD close out her holdings and buy
every hog, sheep and cow in the
state at it's assessed value, and have
several millions left to buy automo-
biles and tailored suits for our wives
and daughters.
This mule futurity is expected to
enhance and improve this interest.
What is futurity? It means that
the owner may name mare in foal
up to March - 1912, and by paying
81 can show this colt at the State
Fair in 1912 without further cost, and
he stands chance to win-s100, and
If man bas anything like a good
one he will certainly get a slice of
the money. But to make it a sue
cess each and every jack, mule and
horseman must put his shoulder to
the wheel and push with all the
weight and vim in him.
1T is the business of the jack man,
the mule man, the m,'ie breeder and
horse man, as he must produce the
mare that produces the mule.
"This is our enterprise; 1t is not
that of the fair association further
than the State Fair now belongs to
every man, woman and child In the
State, and whatever success is had
along this line through the medium
Of the State Fair is our own success.
'T attended fair in neighboring
state at which they held saddle
horse futurity, and 1t brought togeth-
er some of the best known breeders
and the competition was so sharp
and the scale Of superiority between
the entries so evenly balanced that
it took several hours with many
judges to determine the contest.
Being determined it fell to beau
ty that had often been fed from the
intense became her interest that she
deliberately walked across the ring
hand of certain reigning belle, ana
galloped and romped across the blue
grass sod of her front lawn; and SO
and threw her arm around the neck
of the colt and imprinted kiss on
the colts lips. Pandemonium broke
loose, ladies took off their hats and
threw them in the air, regardless OF
the fact whether they could be gotten
on straight or not, and one gentleman
who seemed to be more interested
than the rest, and who had been pay
ing court to this damsel for five
years was heard to exclaim above the
| turmoil, Don't wish was colt? !"
Mule men, jack men, horsemen,
and everybody interested in the prog
ress of the state should get together
and push, pull, urge, and let us have
kthe biggest and the greatest mule
how on earth"