. The American farmer's horse book; a pictorial cyclopedia of facts concerning the prominent breeds ... Horses. CHAPTER XI. ASSES AWD MULES. I. THE WILD ASS. II. GENERAL WASHINGTON S JACKS.——III. THE SOUTH IS THE jack's congenial HOWE. IV. USES OF THE JENNET. ANO WHAT IS A MULE? —V. LONGKVITV OF THE MULE. VI. VALUE OF MULES FOH LA- BOIJ. VII. A HEALTHIER ANIMAL THAN THE HORSE. VIII. DR. STEW- ART'S TESTIMONY. IX. THE BREEDING OF MULES. The ass was probably subjected to domestication at the same time with the horse; at least, mules seem to be of the earliest antiquity. In passing, we must remar
. The American farmer's horse book; a pictorial cyclopedia of facts concerning the prominent breeds ... Horses. CHAPTER XI. ASSES AWD MULES. I. THE WILD ASS. II. GENERAL WASHINGTON S JACKS.——III. THE SOUTH IS THE jack's congenial HOWE. IV. USES OF THE JENNET. ANO WHAT IS A MULE? —V. LONGKVITV OF THE MULE. VI. VALUE OF MULES FOH LA- BOIJ. VII. A HEALTHIER ANIMAL THAN THE HORSE. VIII. DR. STEW- ART'S TESTIMONY. IX. THE BREEDING OF MULES. The ass was probably subjected to domestication at the same time with the horse; at least, mules seem to be of the earliest antiquity. In passing, we must remark the wise provision of nature, by which the hybrids of two species of any genus are always infertile, since, were it otherwise, the earth would have been filled with monsters of every conceivable kind. I. The Wild Ass. The wild ass is essentially an inter-tropical animal, said to have been indigenous to Arabia Deserfa, and the regions of ancient Babylonia. Four distinct races of the wild ass are mentioned in Scripture, one of them, according to the book of Job, of the most wonderful swift- ness. There is still a breed found wild in the hill regions of North- ern India, that are said to be so fleet that no horse can overtake them. Nor is the modern European jack the imbecile, ignorant creature that travelers would have their readers believe. They only see the degenerate and diminutive scabs of the peas- antry of Great Britain and the Continent, an unfortu- nate race of animals, which apparent!}^ have had inbred into them the idea that sub- servience to blows and other ill-usage saves them from risk of mis- treatment in other ways more cruel still; for not all brutes walk on 137. COMMON ASS AND Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Darling, Andrew. [from old catalog]. St. Louis, Mo. , J
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