6o BREEDING AND REARING OF 



pedigrees suppose the jacks are large and of good 

 quality. 



In 1889 a firm from Arkansas made an importation 

 from the kingdom of Andalusia. This was regarded 

 as one among the best lot of jacks ever brought from 

 that part of Spain. The majority of them were grays, 

 but they were heavy and of large bone. They were 

 on exhibition for the purpose of sale at the St. Louis 

 fair in the fall of 1889. Most of them were sold there, 

 and the balance were taken back to Arkansas. This 

 importation numbered about twenty-five head. 



J. D. and W. H. Goodpasture and R. H. Hill landed 

 an importation at Nashville, Tenn., in March, 1886. 

 They were Andalusians from about the city of Cor- 

 dova, Spain, and were about twenty-five in number, 

 including both jacks and jennets. Some of them 

 were above fifteen hands high. In the fall of 1886 

 this firm brought over one of the best importations 

 ever made of Catalonian jacks. Included in the num- 

 ber was Jumbo, sold to a company for $2,000 ; Peacock 

 for $1,500; Boyd's Monarch, $1,500; the Douglas 

 jack, $1,500, at an auction, etc. The following year, 

 the firm being composed of J. D. & W. H. Good- 

 pasture alone, imported from the Cerdan (the frontier 

 of France and Spain, in the Pyrenees). In this im- 

 portation was purchased the jack Great Eastern, whose 

 likeness appears in this volume. Later in the fall 

 they made a second importation from the same place. 

 The next year they made an importation in connection 

 with Messrs. Lyles & Parmer of thirty head of Cata- 

 lonians and Majorcas. This was the largest importa- 

 tion ever made to America up to that time. The fol- 

 lowing year the firm again became J. D. & W. H. 



