Show MULE RAISING IN ILLINOIS method furn cil in ilk the nalo Coti fiti nf of dint at 3 our request I 1 will rive give our way of raisins raising mules an and to begin will siy my s iy that they lim li no 0 been beci i ill aliu most profitable kept on alie aliis county erson has the credit of being beiji tile the banner mule county of the state 3 et no one breeds thern extensively we vo liny inky the colts of partners fart f ners one or more it a place to be delivered on oil a certain date usually in september tern ber and try to liny buy those sired toy by good jacks mid out of our best mires lit at an average cost cifa of bont fifty dollars per liend head wo we collect as many at LIM same time at lot we ball can conveniently for the more we have together the alie sooner they become quiet and sati satisfied abed with their now new home after they have been kept in the barn from three to kix days with plenty of grain and hay lay in leach and be besau in to get quiet over the loss of their ino mothers t hers wo we turn thein to grass in the ti merrith frith I 1 it a gentle mare for company it is s a eight woi woith ill when old fannie comes up at night with it 11 ascole scole of these nimble playing kicking youngsters floso around her claiming they are kept in barn lit at night with plenty of grain 1111 und d hay until about I 1 year old cold when grass gets well veil started then they ale aie turned to p picture and are no more trouble than any an other farm stock if you have a good mule ferice fence our plau plan is to feed alti angly using only such feed as aa is d on oll tile falln faini the second Ivi titer until they tire are fanned out or loaned to neighbor fall fallness ners conditionally i e that they aro are to be well fed and cared for bicken to work ata at 3 years old and ned alie following summer if the alia conditions are not fulfilled the mules go to pasture var earlier lier our next feed tinie time finds us with a bunch about 21 years old really ready for tire feed pen it is best to have a rood good dry barn dorthis for this purpose seas as they will not exercise arc ise so a bai ann it and their hair gets in better shape we vo keep their feed troughs well supplied with coin cut oats threshed oats aal hay 0 giving is as much N variety is as we cn can for allbut about days or longer and then we tire leady ivady for trial mai ket most of them go to botho tho rou bouthern thern tr trade abc which swallows up each years supply with a keener relish dball tile one before luther in bleeders breeders Bre Breed eders cri gazette |