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PAGE FOUR THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. ORE.. THURSDAY, FEB. 3. 1916 13 !" makii mmi LENA, OREGON February 11th, 1916 Fine imposed on anyone who comes dressed up. Good music and a fine time for all. BASKET SUPPER JACKS, JENNETS AND MULES By B. F. SWAGGART, Lexington, Oregon A Refreshing Cup at Any Time O YAL CLUB Super Quality Coffee There is no better coffee at any price. There cannot be because lioyal Club 13 made from the fin est coffees that money can buy. It is carefully blended, then "neutralized" for a whole year before it is roasted, cut and packed for sale. Oh, yes there ere coffees sold at a higher price but none of better Quality or better flavor and there's this in its favor Itoyal Club is roasted fiesh tfniiy in Portland. It's well worth trying. 1-lb. tin -10c 3-lb. tin i.lO 5-lb. tin 11.73 LANG & CO. The "Royal Club" Home Portlund, Or. mm -1 " T The INDEPENDETT 1 GARAGE KING & REDIFER AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES Tires and Tubes Vulcanized. Batter ies Recharged. Electric Equipment. MAXWELL AGENCY and service station Cars Fop Hire at All Hours. Phones: Shop 572 Residence 552 Heppner Located ca North Main Street Oregon TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE O. K. RESTAURANT Ma Shoot, Prop. Just re-opened. Everything neat and clean Best of everything the market affords, including fresh oysters and shell fish. MEALS - - 25c and up The HORN PASTIME VICTOR GROSHEN, Prop. SOUTHEAST CORNER MAIN & MAY STREETS Complete Line of Candies and Cigars and all the Leading Soft Drinks. Card Tables in Connection. First Class Service Give Us a Call 1 pon request, 1 Fuomu 10 you a : synopsis of my observations in the Jack, Jennet ami Mule industry. I . am now passed the 60th milestone of I my life's journey. I was born on a stock farm in Oregon and from child hood to the present day, stock rais ing has been and is now the principal vocation of my life s work. My father was the pioneer mule raiser in Oregon and found ready market for his mules, which he sold in the Cariboo and Frazier River mining districts to be used as pack animals, for which purpose the mule is better than the horse because he is surer footed and carries a heavier load than the horse. As I am writing these lines some of the scenes of my childhood, bo dear to the human heart, pass vividly before my mental vision and I re member when a small boy, in child ish glee and enthusiastic with hope ful anticipation, my first ride was successfully accomplished on the back of one of my father's Mammoth Maltese Jennets. He was raising this breed of jennets. Looking over the annals of stock industry I find that the king of Spain presented George Washington, "the father of our country," with a Mam moth Maltese Jack which he Kept in the stud for forty years. The Jack and Jennets belong to the genus "Equus" and are longer lived and more intelligent than other animals of this species; the mule comes next in the scale of intelli gence. Some cartoonists who are ignorant of the nature and disposi tion of the mule, picture this animal as vicious and mean in various car toons In newspapers and magazines. These "would-be" observors of the animal kingdom, would make a per son believe that the mule is always ready to kick or strike, but as a mat ter of fact such cartoons are misrep resentations by artists who are to tally ignorant as to the nature of mules. It is true that in order, to handle the mule properly, one must make a practical study of the ten dencies and characteristics of this animal. In order to instill trust and confidence in the mule, you must ac cord to him kind treatment. A mule never kicks except lie fears some thing. Many a person believes that young mules must be abused and beaten into submission, but such a method is wrong and despicable. . Take for instance, a mule that is handled by a person possessed of fear, what would be the result? The person's magnetism on account pi' being tinged with fear, is of a nepa-'' tive quality which is attracted by the mule's negative magnetism, and ac cording to the laws of Occultism, as two negative or positive qualities come in contact with each other, cause discord and inharmony. The mule's negative magnetism repels the person's magnetism of like qual ity and arouses fear in the person, j who, in turn infuses fear in (he mule and the latter because he fears some thing is then liable to luck. I11 the Northwest, the introduction of mules for farming and other pur poses has been slow. The first mules I put on the market in Eastern Oro Sou was in 1880, and they were dif ficult to sell. I took twenty head to Fort Walla Walla, Washington, but could not find any market at that time, so was obliged to take tliem home again. The next year I o.Tered the same mules for sale in a farming section, sold some of them at auction for only $63 a span, called the sale on and shipped the others to St. Louis. Missouri, in 1881. In this lo cality they brought a fair price. Since then the demand for mules has been on the increase and s!ill in creasing, so much so, that the supply is not equal to the demand. MuIp raisers in the East are shipping mules to the Northwest and an av erage span thus bought cost the far mer on the Pacific Coast about $500 a span and the eastern mule is infer ior to the native mule of Oregon. Why? Because the eastern mule must become acclimated to this new locality before he can thrive and do his best work. The Eastern stock raiser has bred for height too long and neglected to give the necessary attention to strong bodily qualities, such as deep and broad chest, deep shoulders, heavy boned legs, etc. On account of this neglect on the part of the Eastern Jack raiser, our Jacks and mules are superior to the Eastern jacks and mules. So far as the breeding of jacks and mules is concerned, there has been of late years, some great changes in the East. 'The Stallion and Jack News," now called "The American ISreeder", published in Kansas City, Mo., has initiated the Registry Record for Jacks and Jennets which must come up to the standard of these bodily measurements around the heart; sec ond, a measurement around the leg below the knee, and third, a certain height. If the measurement of the Jack or Jennet corresponds to that required by the Registry Record, he or she should disclose a well propor tioned, symmetrical body, all of which is necessary for the registra tion of these animals. "The Stallion and Jack News" published an article signed by thir teen of the largest mule dealers in the Union, advising the mule breed ers to breed for certain qualities; that too much attention had been given to height; that prospective mule buyers wanted "less daylight" under the mules and better and stronger bodies, strong-boned legs, etc. I have always adhered to this standard of breeding and bred for constitution and quality. The Maltese Jack is to my mind, nearer to the standard of perfection than any other kind. Quick of foot, agile of movement, with a well- pro portioned, broad-chested, smooth body, supported by strong-boned legs, he presents a striking contrast when brought together and compar ed with the spindle-shanked, long legged, razor-backed, narrow chest ed, long-headed and disproportloned body of the Spanish Jack that has been bred for height. For years the Maltese Jacks which I have exhibited against Eastern and imported Jacks, have won the first prize, second prize and sweepstakes. They stand undefeated in the show ring during the past eighteen years. With one exception my mules have won all the first prizes. Some years ago one of my neighbors who worked two of my mules together with nine teen horses to a combined harvester for a period of fifty days, was Bur- prised at the endurance and vigor displayed by these hard-working mules. While all the horses, each of which was heavier than either of the mules, decreased in weight dur ing harvest time, the mules gained flesh in every day and at night kick ed their heels as though they had not been worked at all. Such facts instill in the mind of the public the preference of the mul to the horse. We can raise as good a stock of Jacks, Jennets and Males in Oregon as that produced in any other state of the Union or any foreign country. We have a good climate, a mild winter of short duration; a cool summer with few hot days which are tempered by cool, refreshing, and invigorating breezes. The soil geologically known as vol canic ash, is an excellent retainer of moisture. This s:ii produces a rich verdure of succulent and nourishing grasses, not only during Sprint; time. but also during Fall and Winter when tlie ground is not frozen and as stated above, the Oregon Winters are as a general rule, if. sh-jrt dura tion. Our stock frequently feeds on nourishing grasses during the winter time, when blizwds, severe cold weather and snow storms prevail in the East. Our horsc-s have' been weighed in the balance and they have not been found wanting.-The endurance of the horses of the Northwest has been tested in South Africa during the Boer war. They found no equal in Alaska. I have been experimenting for twenty-five years that I should in time produce Jacks that would sell at a premium over Eastern and im ported Jacks and the time has come when the people of Eastern Oregon and Washington are convinced of this fact. Now, on account of age, I am go ing to close out this industry and have twenty head 'of elegant Jacks from three to six years old, and sixty head of Jennets which will go at two thirds their former prices. The Eastern Jack and those of Spain are short lived and have other faults. It is not my intention to find fault with good imported stock which would improve the grade of our na tive stock, nevertheless, I believe that our stock is nearer the standard of perfection than any other stock. The stock raisers in the Northwest should conduct their industry on a more economical basis. We can pro duce stock for one-half of the cost Incurred to stockraisers of other countries, or in other states of the Union. 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