CHAPTEE VIII. 



MULES, AND THEIR ADAPTABILITY TO 



ENGLISH NEEDS— AGEICULTUL'AL AND 



GENERAL. 



It is by way of being a remarkable fact 

 that tlie mule, which has been found so 

 useful for general purj)oses in almost every 

 other country, should have been so little 

 utilised in this, where horse labour has 

 been from time immemorial so extensively 

 emj)loyed. In France, Spain, and Italy, in 

 particular, the services of this hardy and 

 enduring hybrid have been largely used; 

 while in America the greater part of its 

 agricultural, and probably nearly the Avhole 

 of its street car and military transport 

 work, usually done by horse here, is per- 

 formed by it ; the superior merits of the 



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