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.

1867.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1867,
By DICK & FITZGERALD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS.

Best Method of Breaking

Value of Kind Treatment

How to Harness

Injured by Working too Young

What the Mule can Endure

Color and Peculiar Habits

Mexican Mules, and Packing

The Agricultural Committee

Working Condition of Mules

Spotted Mules

Mule-Breeding and Raising

How Colts should be Handled

Packing Mules

Physical Constitution

Value of Harnessing Properly

Government Wagons

More about Breeding Mules

Ancient History of the Mule

Table of Statistics

14 Portraits of Celebrated Mules

Diseases Common to the Mule, and how they should be treated