64 BREEDING AND REARING OF 



MARINGO MAMMOTH. 



About the year 1850 the late General A. Wilson 

 and my father, the late Captain James Knight, both 

 of Marshall County, Tennessee, visited Kentucky, and 

 purchased a very superior jennet jack, Maringo Mam- 

 moth, in Boyle County. He was taken to Caney 

 Spring, in Marshall County, Tennessee, and did busi- 

 ness as a strictly jennet jack for a number of years 

 at $40 per jennet. My brother, the late General J. M. 

 Knight, then of Murfreesboro, Tenn., also had an 

 interest in him. I afterwards purchased him at a 

 cost of $2,160, and took him to my home, then in 

 Rutherford County, Tennessee, and kept him until he 

 died. This jack was about four years of age when 

 purchased in Kentucky. If my memory serves me 

 correctly, he was exhibited at Lexington and Danville, 

 Ky., and took premiums over his own class. He was 

 also shown at Columbia, Lewisburg, Shelbyville, 

 Nashville and Lebanon, Tenn., at all of which places 

 he was awarded the first premium. I regarded him 

 as the most suitable jack that had ever been intro- 

 duced into Tennessee to improve the small-bone stock 

 of our state, up to that date. He was about sixteen 

 hands high, black, but not a jet black, with white 

 points. He had a remarkably large bone, large head, 

 large foot and body, heavy like a draft horse, stood 

 on and carried his limbs well under him, had good 

 action for an animal of his size. He was sired by 

 Maringo Mammoth, of Kentucky, and he by imported 

 Mammoth that was owned by Messrs. Aquila Young, 

 and Everett, of Mt. Sterling, Ky. One of Maringo 

 Mammoth's dams was called Cleopatra, the others I 

 have forgotten. Imported Mammoth did business 



