Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Knows When to Quit. [ARTICLE]

Knows When to Quit.

Handled intelligently, a mule is • most willing worker; but there are a few unwritten laws that cannot be transgressed with impunity. A mule will seldom make more than two attempts to move a load. On the first strain he will throw his whole force into the collar, and a mule can pull 50 per cent more in relation to his weight than a horse. Science is again dumb at the question whence comes that latent force which neither horse nor ass possesses. After a short rest the mule will makp a second attempt, bnt this is seldom as sustained as the first. If the load still refuses to move the team might as well be unhitched. At times the mules will not even exert enough force on a third attempt to move an empty wagon.