Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Team of This type of draft horse is noted for its great power, good action and native country is France. Courtesy of The Field. Illustrated. N. Y. HORSES AND MULES 577 legs should be an indication of a horses ability to haul a load at a fair rateof speed. The Mule is a hybrid, having for parents a mare and a jack. Becauseof this fact it shows many parental characteristics which are common toboth ancestors. It has longer ears than the horse, a Roman nos
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Team of This type of draft horse is noted for its great power, good action and native country is France. Courtesy of The Field. Illustrated. N. Y. HORSES AND MULES 577 legs should be an indication of a horses ability to haul a load at a fair rateof speed. The Mule is a hybrid, having for parents a mare and a jack. Becauseof this fact it shows many parental characteristics which are common toboth ancestors. It has longer ears than the horse, a Roman nose, heavylips, clean legs, small, narrow feet of good quality, and a scanty growth of. English Shire hair on the tail and a scanty mane. The sexual organs of both mare andhorse mules are undeveloped, consequently they do not breed. The mule is generally smaller than the draft horse, being from 14 to17 hands high, and weighing from 600 to 1600 pounds. Mares of goodquality weighing about 1350 pounds when bred to a heavy-boned jack withlong ears produce mules which have good size, quality and action. As arule, mare mules bring better prices on the market than do horse mules. America has done more towards the economical development of the 1 Courtesy of The Field, New York 578 SUCCESSFUL FARMING mule than any other country, and more than one-half the mules in theworld are in the United States. Due to his hardiness and his ability to take care of himself, the mule isadapted to most climates and to kinds of work for which it would not bepractical to use a horse. In most contagious and infectious diseases,however, the mule has no more resistance than a horse.
Size: 1669px × 1497px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectagriculture, bookyear
