. Diversified farming in the cotton belt. Agriculture; Crop rotation. BRAINS, NOT MUSCLE, SHOULD TILL THE SOIL 37 mares with pronounced success. Tljey perform heavy work at this station and on many farms throughout the entire summer of each year beside small southern grown horses and mules and without greater discomfort. Aside from being in harness the two mares at the Tennessee Station reared a heavy pair of colts that the Station refused $400 for when six months old. Place of the Mule in the South The mule is one of the most vital cogs in the industrial, commercial and agricultural progress
. Diversified farming in the cotton belt. Agriculture; Crop rotation. BRAINS, NOT MUSCLE, SHOULD TILL THE SOIL 37 mares with pronounced success. Tljey perform heavy work at this station and on many farms throughout the entire summer of each year beside small southern grown horses and mules and without greater discomfort. Aside from being in harness the two mares at the Tennessee Station reared a heavy pair of colts that the Station refused $400 for when six months old. Place of the Mule in the South The mule is one of the most vital cogs in the industrial, commercial and agricultural progress of the South. It is in consequence of his faithful ser- vice that the larger part of corn, rice and cotton, as well as numerous other crops are produced and transported to Bailing hay with gasoline power The mule is without rival for work in the logging camps. He excels as a beast of burden in the railroad camps, and for trucking and for delivery purposes in the cities. He possesses the ability to resist disease, and with- stand the stress of severe labor on less and poorer feed than the horse. In many lines of work and particularly those just mentioned, the mule is decidedly superior to the horse and I have no quarrel with those who claim a mule is more economically fed and a more efficient work animal than a horse of equal weight. At the same time, it must be admitted that the mule is without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity and valueless for any purpose other than labor. Light to medium weight draft mares with plenty of quality produce the highest priced mules on the market today. The lighter weight draft mare weighing from 1,400 to 1,600 pounds can be bought for less money on the northern markets than the weighty trotting or saddle bred mares. It is consequently a question of economics to use the draft mare with quahty to produce our mules. That the draft mare produces the highest type of mules is shown by the fact that nearly all of the highest priced mules
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