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to sell each year. I go through the country and buy these colts 

 from the farmers in the fall. I cover about three counties in 

 buying forty colts, buying on an average about one each day. 



Preparing to market corn "on foot." 



This may seem rather slow to some of you, but I do not spend 

 all my time on the colts, as I will explain later. I go into a 

 community where I know there is a good breeding jack and some 

 good, heavy brood mares and there I can most always fmd and 

 buy good colts. After one works a certain territory he learns 

 where these good mares are kept and he has easier sailing. A 

 man who owns a good colt is interested in them and can usually 

 tell you where there are others. These colts are contracted to 

 be delivered sound at a certain date — usually about the first of 

 October. By that time the grown mules have been fattened 

 and sold to the sugar trade in Louisiana. I have sold direct to 

 the same planter for about fifteen years, thus cutting out the 

 middleman's profits each year. 



