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When the flies are very bad and the jack stamps his 

 feet he is liable to break them and make himself lame. 

 When this is the case the animals had better be shod 

 until the flies quit fretting the stock. Some times 

 you may use train oil or some remedy that will keep 

 the flies away from the stock by applying occasionally 

 while they are so annoying. A dark stable will usually 

 keep them away in the day and the stock can run out 

 at night when there are no flies to worry them. 



SECTION SEVENTH. 



As I am writing this book for the interest of my 

 young countrymen and wishing to give them my ex- 

 perience, I have concluded to give them a brief history 

 of one of my trips after the Civil War of i86i to 1865, 

 inclusive. Previous to the war I was extensively en- 

 gaged in breeding stock, especially the jack and jennet. 

 I had procured a first-class jennet jack, Maringo 

 Mammoth, at the cost of $2,160, and used him ex- 

 clusively as a jennet jack at $40 per jennet. 



I had at that time about seventy-five jacks and jen- 

 nets and was compelled to farm many of them out 

 to stockmen on the shares. I tried to select good, 

 steady, sober, upright men, that had farms of their 

 own and men that would take care of them, those who 

 had grass and were fond of this class of stock. I had 

 selected men from my own county (Rutherford), Bed- 

 ford, Cannon, Coffee, Wilson, and Marshall counties. 

 They had given me their obligations to take special 

 good care of my jennets and be at all expense in breed- 

 ing and rearing of said stock for a period of some 

 three years, and some five years. They also agreed 

 and bound themselves to consult me in the breeding 



