9^ BREEDING AND REARING OF 



surpass them. Their power of reproduction is 

 strongly illustrated by the fact that the Spanish gov- 

 ernment obtains the greater part of her artillery 

 mules from Majorca. And some of these were also 

 obtained a few years ago by the English government 

 for transport service in Egypt and elsewhere. 



As to height, those brought to this country will 

 average about fifteen and one-half hands. They are 

 more uniform in size than the Catalonian, and we 

 believe them to be, all things considered, the largest 

 jacks in existence. 



A good many of the breed have been imported into 

 South America, and at prices that astonished me 

 when I first learned them. Two sold there a few 

 years ago are reported to have gone at the price of 

 $900 each, which, if all expenses are added, makes a 

 pretty good figure for a country considered by us so 

 far in the rear of North American civilization. 



Their heads and ears are enormous and inclined to 

 a bulky appearance. While they have the longest 

 and largest ears of any other race they are not so erect 

 and piercing as the Catalonian, nor have they the 

 style and action of this breed ; in fact, they may be 

 said to incline to sluggishness. 



If the Catalonian be likened to the French coach 

 horse or the Cleveland bay, the Majorca would be a 

 Percheron or a Shire. 



There is certainly no purer race of jacks in Spain 

 than the Majorca. As far back as 1825 Mr. Pome- 

 roy, in an essay before the Maryland Agricultural 

 Society, said : ''So much have been the ravages of 

 war and anarchy in Spain for a long time past that 

 the fine race of jacks that country once possessed has 



