JACKS, JBNNETS AND MULES 6l 



Goodpasture, when they imported Majorcas, Catalo- 

 nians and Poitous to the number of fifty-seven head. 

 This stands as the largest individual importation ever 

 made to the United States. The present year, 1890, 

 they imported twenty head of jacks and jennets — all 

 Catalonians. 



In the fall of 1886 Whitworth, Perry, Lester and 

 C. C. H. Burton imported twenty head of Catalonians. 

 This was an extra good lot. It included Paragon, 

 recently sold to George Tarkington, of Danville, Ky., 

 for $2,000. The following year Perry & Lester, Bur- 

 ton and Frank Lester, Jr., made a most excellent selec- 

 tion of Majorcas and Catalonians. There was scarcely 

 an inferior jack in the lot. Some of them were large 

 and superior jennet jacks. 



The following year the firm became Perry, Lester, 

 Knight & Son, the selections being made in Spain by 

 William E. Knight and Frank Lester, Jr. This im- 

 portation included a colt two years and sixteen days 

 old that was sold to Smith Bros., of Murfreesboro, 

 Tenn., for $2,000, which, considering age, is the highest 

 price ever paid for an imported jack in the United 

 States. This jack (King James) is full sixteen hands, 

 and has proven to be an extra breeder for jennets. 

 There was a number of other good ones in the lot, 

 many of them being colts that afterwards developed 

 into magnificent jacks. 



The same firm imported again the following year, 

 bringing good stock. They sold three half-brothers, 

 one yearling and two two-year-olds for $4,500. The 

 yearling colt (Spanish King) was sold to Dr. Kird, 

 Wm. and R. Davis, all of Wilson County, Tennessee, 

 for $1,500. He is developing into a first-class jennet 

 jack. 



