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Show The Male on tlin Fnrm. A mule weighing 1,000 pounds Is about as strong as a horse weighing 1,500 pounds. If well used mules will live twenty-five to forty years. They are useful use-ful nearly twice as long as heavy horses, often three times as long if used on the ( paved streets of cities. As a rule mules do not become vicious if used continual-j continual-j ly, but horse mules will frequently kill pigs, calves, sheep, etc., If kept idle and well fed. New England Homestead advises that in caring for mules the same rule should be followed as in the care of horses, namely, kind treatment, quiet but firm ; eontroi being exercised. Mules should I be broken to tlie bridle and halter while J very young, and before they get their j toeth, that they may be the easier han-j han-j died. If this plan is adopted there will i be little trouble with them as they de-! de-! velop, and when 6trong enough to be ' put to work they will take it as natur- ally as does a borne. Mule colts demand : ub muclrcare and warmth in winter as : any other animal, and the Bize and stam- inn depends as much on food as does that of the horse. |