Posted by LAA on December 05, 2015 at 07:52:49 from (217.175.64.196):
In Reply to: Farming with Horses posted by John in La on December 05, 2015 at 07:33:08:
My Dad and Grand Dad told me that mules were popular in the south because they were more heat tolerant, mosquito tolerant, ate less than horses of the same size and had smaller feet and so they could travel better in boggy ground, especially in the log woods. Plus at the time there were very few large fields in the south, most people farmed between 40 and 100 acres total and the big draft horses and heavy hitches were not required, these are also some of the reasons that tractors were slow to catch on in the south. My Grand Dad managed a plantation on the Tensas river from 1921 until 1948 when he bought his home farm, that plantation still had over 30 mules and 3 teams of Percheron horses in 1948, I think a JD ''B'' was the only tractor on the place when he left. Grand dad and my Youngest Uncle started off farming together in 1948 with 3 mules, it was 1954 before they got a tractor. Funny you mention oxen because they always used the dairy bull to pull the manure spreader so I was told. Memphis Tennessee was the largest mule market in the country well into the 50's.
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