lO BREEDING AND REARING OF 



chase jacks and jennets to get an interpreter who 

 could speak Spanish, French or Italian, and they also 

 had to have a man that was acquainted with the coun- 

 try where the stock could be found ; besides, it was 

 necessary to procure a vehicle and team to hunt up 

 this stock. Hence, you see what an amount of money 

 it requires for a stock dealer to visit those countries 

 and have so much expense attached to his finding and 

 purchasing stock, paying hotel bills and traveling. 

 After the stock has been found and purchased, per- 

 haps it is scattered over a great extent of territory, 

 and has to be concentrated and gotten to a shipping 

 point. And even then, the interpreter must be kept 

 until the stock is put on board of ship. Now, after 

 the stock is put on board of ship, they require vigilant 

 attention. Sometimes when placed in the hull, where 

 they cannot get sufficient pure air, they are liable to 

 suffer and die for the want of it ; or if they are placed 

 on upper deck, and the sea is rough and tempestuous, 

 as is the case in a severe storm, and the ship nearly 

 covered with the raging waves, the stock, in that case, 

 is in great danger of being washed overboard; but 

 when the sea is calm, the deck passage is more favor- 

 able. 



About the year of 1853 or 1854 I owned a very 

 superior jack called Monarch. He was a gray, about 

 fifteen hands high, horse measure ; was sired by my 

 jennet jack Maringo Mammoth. His dam was by 

 Hon. Henry Clay's imported Don Callous, of Ken- 

 tucky. He proved to be a superior breeder for both 

 mares and jennets. I was able to stand him at $10 

 for mares and $20 for jennets. He was considered 

 then the best and most valuable jack in Rutherford 



