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even blue ones are to be found. To find one black, 

 however, is little in his favor, as he is just as apt to 

 breed gray as his brother, who is entirely white. The 

 blood is there and will show itself. In height they 

 are about the same as the Catalonian ; fourteen and 

 one-half to fifteen hands. They have a most excel- 

 lent leg; the bone is large and firm, and freer than 

 are the other breeds from what is commonly known 

 as "jack sores," viz. : a running sore that appears on 

 the inside of the knee and hock, and which sometimes 

 gives a great deal of trouble. They have a fairly 

 good head and ear, and are really a good jack. While 

 many of them have been imported into this country, 

 they have never been popular, chiefly on account of 

 their color. In this we believe the people to be right. 

 There are other races just as good, and some that we 

 think are better, that have the desired color, and the 

 progressive breeder should seek the ideal in all things. 



We have heard at least one importer complain of 

 their not breeding regularly, but we do not think 

 this has been our observation of them. So far as 

 we have seen, they are as much to be depended upon 

 in this respect as any others. 



The breed is now pretty thoroughly scattered over 

 this country, as in addition to those brought over be- 

 fore the war, they have been imported in the last few 

 years by Mr. Lyles, of Kentucky; Messrs. Good- 

 pasture, of Tennessee; the Messrs. Leonard, of Mis- 

 souri ; and in 1889 quite a large importation by a 

 firm in Arkansas. 



Their hereditary tendency to gray can only be elimi- 

 nated by carefully breeding to one of the distinctively 

 black races. We do not think a gray or blue jennet 



