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thirty-five to forty years), but have seen it in a jack 

 colt, and never knew one to recover. The colt will 

 throw its ears on his neck and appear to have little 

 or no use of himself, and will linger from three to 

 seven days and die. My opinion is the navel cord has 

 been the principal cause of the trouble; i. e., the pull- 

 ing or irritating of the nerves connected with the 

 navel. 



The jack stock is very tender when young, and 

 should have vigilant attention. I know of no stock 

 that pays a man better than the first-class stock of 

 this character. I have known of some jennets that 

 have brought their owners as high as ten thousand 

 dollars worth of stock. 



I trust I will be pardoned for another digression. 

 I want to relate a circumstance that occurred in Ken- 

 tucky to a gentleman by the name of Knox, who 

 lived in Boyle County, near Danville, Ky. His 

 father gave him fifty acres of land to start him in 

 business; he commenced raising corn and hogs, and 

 succeeded in that business very well, for that kind 

 of occupation. He said some years he had cholera 

 among his hogs and they would die. Then when they 

 had drouth, the corn crop failed, so then he had hogs 

 and no corn, and when the cholera killed his hogs, he 

 had corn and no hogs. He became discouraged. He 

 had a neighbor who had two jennets over medium 

 size and quality; he bred them to the best jennet jacks 

 in the country, and was lucky to get jack colts. They 

 were well nursed. The owner had two small blue 

 grass lots where he kept his jennets and colts and 

 would change them from one to the other as was neces- 

 sary. When the jack colts became able to consume 



