. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. appreciable results. Ciudad Real was formerlythe great market place for mules, ten thousandbeing often for sale there, bringing high three years of age they are usually worthfrom eight hundred to nine hundred francs(!Si6o to ^180). The finest and handsomestbring from twelve hundred to eighteen hundredfrancs (^240 to $360). Mules are usually sterile,though they have been known to have offspring,but the latter have no vitality and die young. V. The Zebrule, or ZebroidLately a Scotch naturalist, J. C. Ewarts,who has mad
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. appreciable results. Ciudad Real was formerlythe great market place for mules, ten thousandbeing often for sale there, bringing high three years of age they are usually worthfrom eight hundred to nine hundred francs(!Si6o to ^180). The finest and handsomestbring from twelve hundred to eighteen hundredfrancs (^240 to $360). Mules are usually sterile,though they have been known to have offspring,but the latter have no vitality and die young. V. The Zebrule, or ZebroidLately a Scotch naturalist, J. C. Ewarts,who has made himself a name in this domain,mated a zebra stallion, named Matopes, with amare from one of the Scotch islands. Theproduct was a foal which received the nameof Romulus, the new race being called zebrules,. Sir John, a colt, and the fillies Bunda andBlack Agnes, which were both sold to Ham-burg ; the English government then boughtthem and sent them to India, where they weretrained for service in a mountain battery. Inshape the zebroids are a cross between the
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