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brought before him, and let him get ready to serve 

 a mare before he would serve a jennet. I well remem- 

 ber one of our imported Catalonia three-year-old jacks 

 that I had broken to serve mares and by accident a 

 jennet that was in heat broke out of her lot and came 

 to the lot where this jack (Tennessee Giant, for that 

 was his name) was. She stood by the gate with open 

 slats where the jack could smell her all night. The 

 jack did not get to serve her, but he became so much 

 enamored with her that it was some time before we 

 could get him to serve mares again. He was sixteen 

 hands high, black and with white points. He was 

 strictly a jennet jack. We rated him at $2,000. It 

 has been our custom to first train our jennet jacks to 

 serve mares before they are broken to serve jennets. 

 Some times we want our jennet jack to serve a few 

 mares when he is not engaged with jennets. So we 

 think it best to break them to serve both mares and 

 jennets, even where you expect to make jennets almost 

 a specialty. 



As long as I have been in the jack and jennet busi- 

 ness I have known but few breeders who have not 

 reared some jacks that were spoiled in their raising by 

 allowing them to associate with their own species too 

 long when colts. When this is the case the value of 

 the jack is reduced to about one-half of a mule jack. 

 So you will readily see how important it is for a 

 breeder to keep his jack colts away from jennets or 

 even mules, and let them be put with fillies about their 

 own age and continue with them until the jack colt 

 becomes too rough for the filly colt. When the jack 

 colt is associated with a filly he becomes attached to 

 her and when he becomes about twenty or twenty- 



