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Show NEW ANIMAL MAY SUPP.LANT MULE By International News Service. lOlTNT VERNON. Ind., June 30 The sebrold may succeed the mule as a beast of burden, as the result of experiments ex-periments conducted hy Dr. W. E. HastUgs for five years, at a cost of $10,000. Believing that a hybrid of an American Amer-ican mare and a ebra would be fnr superior to the mule. Dr. Hastings went to Hamburg. Germany, and purchased two fine snecimens of the Grevy zebra from the Hagenbecks. The female died, but the male grew rapidly and now weighs 1000 pound k. Dr. Hastings imported im-ported twenty fine young Arpbfan mares aa mates for the xebra, but the first foal to arrive has ats its dam a flea bitten, sedate old gray American mare. To this humble creature was born the first of Ihf breed that may sunersede the mule. The xebrold im a beautiful nnlmal The colt stood forty inches at foaling time, as rompred with thirty -six Inches for the average mule colt, and has a grace that can lie compared only to the gazelle. Its color la a soft chocolate choc-olate brown with stripes of a lighter brown marking Its coat. Iater these stripes mlll become white, Vafter the) fashion of its sire. Dr. Hastings believes the xebra will give a bigger bone to its offspring, the foal will be less suhject to sickness. Its tough skin wilt resist the attack of flies and Its average - age will be doubled. A mule lives to be 25 years old. hut xebraa have been known to attain the age of 75. The government experimented with the cross of the xebra and the American Ameri-can mare several years go and produced pro-duced one xebroid, but discontinued the experiment. |