The Badminton Magazine 1900-06: Vol 10 Iss 59 (1900)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 50
world has failed adequately to recognise and appreciate the superior qualities of the mule compared with the horse as a burden-bearer. Yet in all our Colonies, and more particularly in Indiaj mule-breeding is extensively and increasingly carried on; and ° from a financial point of view,… … A POITOU MULE (‘ BEAUTY’) may be termed the mule ‘nurseries’ of Europe. Of these France comes first, and each mule farm in Poitou possesses upwards of eight mares kept solely for mule-breeding purposes. The methods of Poitou farmers are, however, of a rather primi- tive character, which the…
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