492 A HISTORY OF THE PEECHERON HORSE 



we shipped carried but a small infusion of draft 

 blood. It was soon observed that these mares of 

 more weight gave a better account of themselves as 

 farm workers than the lighter mares had done. Even 

 after the first shipment it was evident that farmers 

 were willing to pay more money for the heavier ones 

 than for medium-weight mares. In 1910 we shipped 

 in a carload of high grade Pereheron mares. These 

 sold well and developed into valuable breeding and 

 work mares. In 1911 I purchased 6 registered 

 mares in central Illinois. They have been regular 

 breeders and good fann workers in Tennessee. Since 

 1911 we have been carrying grade and purebred 

 Pereheron mares on the farm of the Georgia State 

 College of Agriculture. These mares have also done 

 satisfactory work and have proved regular breeders. 

 We have demonstrated conclusively that with rea- 

 sonable supers'ision the negro will make a satis- 

 factory teamster with grade or purebred mares. 



"During six weeks of the hottest summer months 

 the mules are able to do but little more work 

 than the mares. We work our mares regularly 

 through the entire season, but during the hottest 

 weather they are given the lightest work and the 

 mules the heaviest work. For the other ten and 

 a half months of the year our mares do more work 

 than the mules do. 



"I feel positive that we will work mules in the 

 cottonbelt permanently. However, there is a strong, 

 growing demand for homeraised mules, and even the 

 most skeptical farmer is willing to admit that the 

 Pereheron stallion is the best 'grand-daddy' a mule 

 ever had. In other words, there is a broadening de- 

 mand for Pereheron stallions to sire mule mares. 

 The user of mules knows that the massive, full-made, 

 strong-boned mule is more durable and more salable 



