SUPPOSED CASE OF A FERTILE MULE 
The female is said to be out of a standard bred mare by a mammoth jack, which would make 
her a true mule. 
Bred to a black Percheron stallion, she is reported to have given birth 
to the colt shown, which would therefore be three-fourths horse and one-fourth ass. A 
better photograph of the colt is reproduced in the succeeding illustration. 
reports this colt as “‘very peculiar in 
make-up and very unthrifty.”’ <A letter 
from the owner, April 26, reports this 
gray colt (three-fourths ass and one- 
fourth horse) as doing well: “‘she seems 
to have the large bone of the horse 
above the knees, and below the knee 
the foot is small like a jack; it shows the 
Percheron one-eighth in the square hip. 
The colt makes a very peculiar noise, 
unlike any animal I ever heard.” 
Mr. Bryant has bred the “hinny”’ 
this year to a spotted Welsh pony and 
hopes to get a foal three-fourths horse 
and one-fourth ass. He says he has 
been about 10 years breeding for a 
“srade mule’’—and if the present colt 
lives he believes he will ‘Shave the breed 
started.”’ 
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(Fig. 6.) 
Through the courtesy of Glen Hayes, 
editor of American Farming, the follow- 
ing case was called to my attention; the 
statements are quoted from  corre- 
spondence with the owner, D. W. 
Sullivan, of Weed, Cal. Mr. Sullivan 
states that the female in Fig. 6 is out 
of a standard bred mare by a Mammoth 
Jack. This ‘“‘mule’’ was put to a black 
Percheron stallion and on May 31, 
1915, produced the male foal shown in 
the picture. The picture was taken 
when the colt was 3 days old. He is 
doing well at the present writing, and 
gives promise of developing into a 
valuable animal. He has a tail like a 
mule, and his feet are very small, long 
and narrow, again a mule-like trait. 
The owner states that “his actions are 
