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the reverse may be said to hold good so far as the 

 best jacks of Spain are concerned. We have imported 

 some of our best jacks, Great Eastern among the 

 number, from a point in full view of the eternal snows 

 of the Pyrenees, and in bringing them home marched 

 them over snow in June. And let those who are en- 

 gaged in breeding jacks only think of the enormous 

 unoccupied field yet to be supplied with them. The 

 demand for them North has already commenced. 

 Some of our best sales last year were made to Indiana 

 and Illinois, to which points we had never sold before. 

 We are constantly in receipt of letters of inquiry from 

 Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, California, 

 and even far off Vermont. Some two or three weeks 

 ago I received a letter from a gentleman in one of the 

 Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, who was anxious to in- 

 troduce the jack on these rich and fertile islands. The 

 possibilities for the trade are beyond computation, and 

 a significant fact is that not above two or three states 

 now raise a surplus. 



THE ANDALUSIAN. 



Here in Tennessee we have experimented more or 

 less — but under the most unfavorable circumstances, 

 on account of a lack of organization and a stud book 

 — with all the prominent breeds. Those first intro- 

 duced were the Andalusians, and reached either 

 through Virginia or Kentucky. The king of Spain, 

 in 1787, presented to General Washington a jack and 

 jennet of this breed. The former was called the 

 Royal Gift. About the same time he was presented 

 with a Maltese jack by the Marquis Lafayette. The 

 Maltese jack was crossed on the Andalusian jennet, 



