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muzzle. He could be managed only by one groom, and that always at consider- 

 able personal risk He lived to a great age, and was so infirm towards the 

 a^t as to require lifting. He died on my estate in Xew Kent, in the state of 

 West Virginia, about 1802 or 1803. His mules were all active, spirited and 

 serviceable, and from stout mares attained considerable size. 



General Washington bred a favorite jack called Compound, from the cross 

 of Spanish and Maltese — the Knight upon the imported Spanish jennet 

 iliis jack was a very superior animal; very long bodied, well set, with all 

 qualities of the Knight and the weight of the Spanish. He was the sire of 

 some of the finest mules at .Mount Vernon and died as a result of an accident. 

 Ihe General bred mules from the best of his coach mares, and found the value 

 of the mule to bear a just proportion to the value of the dam. Four mules 

 sold, at the sale of his effects, for upwards of $800, and two more pairs at 

 upwards of $400 each pair. Of one pair of these mules each was nearly 

 sixteen hands high. -^ 



From these jacks a compound breed was produced, that, when bred to laro-e 

 mares, was unexcelled for size and activity. *' 



The breeding of jacks and jennets (as the female of the ass 

 is called) is confined to bnt few hands. These breeding studs 

 are mostly located in Kentucky and Tennessee, though some are 



Fig. oO. A Good Farm Team, Five or Six Years oi.j,, ( .,,miau jih 

 OwNER^$600 IN THE Spring. They Are Iron Gray and Are Built 

 VERY Solid, Adapted to Any Kind of Farm Work 



found in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Up to the time 

 of the Civil War the breeding of this stock was an important in- 

 dustry, the jacks produced being distributed for service all over 



