Market Classes and Grades of Horses and Mules


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Excerpt from Market Classes and Grades of Horses and Mules Cotton mules are lighter boned than miners and not so compactly built. They are round bodied, smoothly turned and possess considerable quality. They range in height from 13 - 2 to 15-2 hands and weigh from 750 to 1100 pounds. Sugar, mules are those shipped south to use on the sugar farms of Georgia, Louisiana and other southern states. They are taller, larger, and more breedy looking than cotton mules and have heavier bone. They stand from 16 to 17 hands and weigh from 1150 to 1300 pounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










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Standard Varieties of Chickens


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"The economical production of beef cattle in most sections of the United States depends largely upon the investment in the durable, convenient, and practical buildings, as well as upon the care, feeding, and management of the herd. Barns suitable for the successful growing and fattening of beef cattle need not be elaborate nor overexpensive. Any unnecessary outlay of money invested in them adds to the overhead expense. Appearance, however, should not be neglected, since well-proportioned and well-designed barns may be constructed at very little, if any additional expense. Such barns add materially to the sale value of a farm property."--Page ii.




Harmful and Beneficial Mammals of the Arid Interior


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The domestication of deer and elk offers an interesting field for experiment, as well as remunerative returns for the investment of capital. The wapiti and the Virginia deer can be raised successfully and cheaply under many different conditions of food and climate. The production of venison and the rearing of both species for stocking parks may be made profitable industries in the United States. Instead of hampering breeders by restrictions, as at present, state laws should be so modified as to encourage the raising of deer, elk, and other animals as a source of profit to the individual and to the state. Safeguards against the destruction and sale of wild deer in place of domesticated deer are not difficult to enforce. For this purpose a system of licensing private parks, and of tagging deer or carcasses sold or shipped so that they may be easily identified is recommended. It is believed that with favorable legislation much otherwise waste land in the United States may be utilized for the production of venison so as to yield profitable returns, and also that this excellent and nutritious meat, instead of being denied to 99 per cent of the population of the country, may become as common and as cheap in our markets as mutton.




Mule Production


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