IIO BREEDING AND REARING OF 



tage. Their mules would be heavy enough for the 

 heaviest farm and road work, and some few single 

 ones would be able to pull alone in a city dray, or a 

 pair of them the heavy four-wheeled city trucks. I 

 am confident that as soon as such mules could be 

 placed in market they would be of quicker sale, and 

 at higher prices than horses, for they are less liable 

 to disease, hardier, longer-lived, and, it is contended, 

 consume less food for the work done. Our breeders 

 should not hesitate to go into this business to the full 

 extent of their ability, for they could not probably 

 be able to produce mules enough to meet the demand 

 even at high prices for fifty years." 



PERFECTION. 



Perfection was foaled May 2'j, 1891. He has the 

 finest bone, head and ear of any colt we known — Roman 

 head, finest of style; and took all the premiums in her 

 class at the many Middle Tennessee fairs, to wit : Mur- 

 freesboro, Columbia, Lewisburg, Fayetteville, and 

 Pulaski ; and a number of other fairs in Kentucky. She 

 has never entered a ring without a ribbon. She has 

 been exhibited twenty-five times and took twenty-five 

 blue ribbons. She took the premium at the World's 

 Fair, Chicago, in 1893, also at the State Fair, at Nash- 

 ville, 1893. Is in foal to Day Star (22). She is pro- 

 nounced by jack men to be the best colt ever seen in 

 Middle Tennessee. Sired by Long Tom, fifteen hands, 

 three inches ; he by Ezell's Big Tom, Jr. ; he by F. R. 

 Rains' Big Tom, Sr. ; he by McGavock Bossy ; he by 

 Imp. Black Forrest, Long Tom's first dam by F. R. 

 Rains' Black Mammoth, and she out of an imported 



