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MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES
eral acquaintances, engaged in the same business but man-
aging differently, had (comparatively) bad success. I lay
particular stress on the benefits resulting from feeding corn
regularly to American jacks and stallions.
My first crop of mules foaled and raised in Texas I ex-
changed for cotton with Mr. Green Gay of the Aransas,
where that river crosses the high road between San Patricio
and Goliad; and that cotton netted me about $5,000.00 in
Matamoras, Mexico, during "our late family unpleasantness."
I was so unsuccessful in breaking my horse colts by the
Mexican mode, which is very rough and severe, as pursued
in Northern Mexico and Southern Texas, that I let most of
them run unbroken until I sold my entire stock, when I had
been four years on my ranch and one at the Diesmero.
Mexicans are good hands for hunting up horse and mule
stock, and for herding them, and have a number of simple
and efficacious remedies for "doctoring"; but they are too
severe and rough in breaking or gentling them for the saddle;
and they usually know nothing about breaking animals to
harness. Many of my colts were severely injured by their
mode of handling, and I am satisfied that our American
methods of handling and gentling are far superior to Mexican
methods. The Mexicans starve, scare, and beat the potros
(young geldings) almost to death, to reduce their strength
and diminish their spirit, till they can offer but feeble resist-
ance, instead of preserving their strength, and making their
spirit docile, by good treatment and gentle handling.
My average crop of mules, from two jacks at first, each
running with twenty-five mares, and afterwards from three
jacks and four, as I gradually increased the number of my
manadas, by the addition of their fillies, amounted to twenty
mules from every twenty-five mares. Late in the season I58
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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964; Boatright, Mody C. & Ransom, Harry H. Mustangs and Cow Horses, book, 1940; Dallas, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67653/m1/70/: accessed May 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.