JACKS, JENNETS AND MUI^KS 53 



General A. Wilson, my father and my brother, Gen- 

 eral J. M. Knight, purchased in Kentucky the cele- 

 brated premium jennet jack, Maringo Mammoth. He 

 did business for a number of years in Marshall Coun- 

 ty, Tennessee, after which I purchased him as a nine- 

 year-old, and at a cost of $2,160, and used him ex- 

 clusively for jennets at $40 per jennet. The jack 

 was about sixteen hands high, standard, with unusual 

 weight and substance. We regarded him as the 

 largest and best adapted to improve the small-boned 

 jack stock that was ever introduced into Tennessee. 

 He was the recipient of every premium for which he 

 contended in the State of Kentucky, of his own age, 

 and captured every premium contended for in Ten- 

 nessee, and was shown at all the important fairs in 

 the middle division. He was black, with white points, 

 was sired by Maringo Mammoth, of Kentucky, and he 

 by Mammoth (imported). A number of his jennets 

 sold for $500 before the war. 



I also owned the celebrated premium jack, Ben 

 Franklin, he being a purely bred Spanish jack. He 

 proved to be a most excellent breeder, both for mares 

 and jennets. He was the recipient of more premiums 

 than any jack of his day. I exhibited him at a great 

 many fairs in Middle Tennessee, at Chattanooga, and 

 at two state fairs in Georgia — one at Macon in 1873, 

 and at Atlanta in 1874. He was also exhibited in 

 Illinois'. In all of these places he met with success. 



I think one of the first imported jacks ever brought 

 to Tennessee was taken to Maury County, and was 

 owned by a Mr. Thomas. He was afterwards sold to 

 General Gideon J. Pillow and brother. This was 

 Knight Errant (imported). I think he was imported 



