. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. White Donkeys THE ASS AND THE MULE 163 animals are indispensable in mountainous coun-tries for the transportation of footing is firm and sure, and they cancarry a load of five hundred pounds for weeksover trackless regions. They are also excel-lent riding animals and are still much used forprivate carriages in many of the southern coun-tries of Europe ; they are also used for artillerywagons. In America the mule is indispensablein the sugar and cotton fields of the South. The production of mules is constant i
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. White Donkeys THE ASS AND THE MULE 163 animals are indispensable in mountainous coun-tries for the transportation of footing is firm and sure, and they cancarry a load of five hundred pounds for weeksover trackless regions. They are also excel-lent riding animals and are still much used forprivate carriages in many of the southern coun-tries of Europe ; they are also used for artillerywagons. In America the mule is indispensablein the sugar and cotton fields of the South. The production of mules is constant in government has endeavored to put a stopto it, in favor of raising horses, but without or zebroiils. Later several mares were matedwilli the same zebra stallion and many foalswere obtained, the chief among them ixin. 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,
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