The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put
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THE MULE
A TREATISE
ON THE BREEDING, TRAINING, AND USES,
TO WHICH
HE MAY BE PUT.
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE GOVERNMENT CORRAL, WASHINGTON D.C.
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE GOVERNMENT CORRAL, WASHINGTON D.C.
PREFACE.
NOTE.
CONTENTS.
Value of Kind Treatment
How to Harness
What the Mule can Endure
Mexican Mules, and Packing
The Agricultural Committee
Spotted Mules
Mule-Breeding and Raising
How Colts should be Handled
Packing Mules
Value of Harnessing Properly
Government Wagons
Transcriber's Note
CHAPTER I. HOW MULES SHOULD BE TREATED IN BREAKING.
CHAPTER II. THE DISADVANTAGES OF WORKING MULES THAT ARE TOO YOUNG.
CHAPTER III. COLOR, CHARACTER, AND PECULIARITIES OF MULES.
CHAPTER IV. DISEASES MULES ARE LIABLE TO.--WHAT HE CAN DRAW, ETC., ETC.
CHAPTER V. PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MULE.
CHAPTER VI. SOMETHING MORE ABOUT BREEDING MULES.
CHAPTER VII. ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE MULE.
List of Mules Received, died, and Shot, at the Depot of Washington, D.C., from 1st February, 1863. to 31st July, 1866.
PICTURES OF SOME OF OUR MOST CELEBRATED ARMY MULES.
DISEASES COMMON TO THE MULE, AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE TREATED.
DISTEMPER IN COLTS.
CATARRH OR COLDS.
GLANDERS.
SYMPTOMS.
TEETHING.
DISEASES OF THE TEETH.
THE EYE.
THE TONGUE.
POLL-EVIL.
FISTULA.
COLLAR-GALLS.
THRUSH.
CHEST FOUNDERS.
BLEEDING.
COLIC.
PHYSICKING.
STRINGHALT.
CRAMP.
SPAVIN.
RINGBONE.
MANGE.
GREASE-HEEL.
SHOES, SHOEING, AND THE FOOT.
ADVICE TO BLACKSMITHS.
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