THE MULE
by Harvey Riley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Riley, Harvey
- Title
- The Mule: A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put
- Credits
- Produced by Judith B. Glad and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SF: Agriculture: Animal culture
- Subject
- Mules
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 10878
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10878
- Release Date
- January 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE MULE — A TREATISE — ON THE BREEDING, TRAINING, AND USES, — TO WHICH — HE MAY BE PUT. — BY HARVEY RILEY, — 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
- 2.CHAPTER I. HOW MULES SHOULD BE TREATED IN BREAKING.
- 3.CHAPTER II. THE DISADVANTAGES OF WORKING MULES THAT ARE TOO YOUNG.
- 4.CHAPTER III. COLOR, CHARACTER, AND PECULIARITIES OF MULES.
- 5.CHAPTER IV. DISEASES MULES ARE LIABLE TO.--WHAT HE CAN DRAW, ETC., ETC.
- 6.CHAPTER V. PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MULE.
- 7.CHAPTER VI. SOMETHING MORE ABOUT BREEDING MULES.
- 8.CHAPTER VII. ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE MULE.
- 9.List of Mules Received, died, and Shot, at the Depot of Washington, D.C., from 1st February, 1863. to 31st July, 1866.
- 10.PICTURES OF SOME OF OUR MOST CELEBRATED ARMY MULES.
- 11.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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