Again wo would urge on stock raisers
the importance of raising large mules
for the market. Wo believe thero is
good money in it. The desired result
can be obtained by brooding large sized
mares to the largest jacks. It would be
money in the iwekets of our fanners and
stockmen if they had mules to do most
of their innn work and hauling, particularly
in hilly and stony districts. Another
good quality of tho long eared animal
is that he is surer looted than the
horse.
As a rule the mule, like hybrids,
is unable to reproduce its land, but thore
n f two or three instances on record in
which the feuialo mnk has given birth
tf. at colt. Mr. Timothy Dyer has at
prent a mare mule and colt on his
Wyoming ranch. Tempting offers from
ftak muteums have hot 11 rejected by
Mr. Djir, as he intends to laise the oolt.
It i being brown and
white
A wool burring mnchino lots been in-tented
in Australia, whence bo many
valuable things come. This machine
takes rll burrs and foreign matter out
without injuring tho wool in the least.
Tour Ilornci of a Kino Arelilcnt.
A horror wis averted at Monmouth,
EUj., by tho prompt aud vigorous action
of four bravo nisu. The (b w a
milo east cf tho city, was tlwrccne. An
explosion of gas nt tho foot of thv? new
shaft, ninety feet deep, ignited the engine
houo at the top, and the wooden
structures about were soon ablaae. The
shaft was soon filled with smoke, and
the men imprisoned below were
obliged to seek shelter in thv furthermost
recesses of th mine, whore th v lay down
on their faoM to keep from suffocating.
