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MACKEY SELECTING MARES FOR EXPORT. LSl tauten, Kv.. May 24.— John MsikSJ is select lag the hundred broodmares and foals that J. B. iiazgin is to ship to the Argentine Republic, where a similar ci.nsignincnt brought good prices last year. When Mr. Haggia finishes the weeding out si his famous Eluieiiiloil Stud, once the greatest breeding establishment in the world, he will not have more than 20S stallions and ■area. Before the passage of the Hart-Agaen law. which made this curtailment necessary, Mr. ilaggln maintained 330 stallions and mares :n Kentucky ami sold their produce annually la eastern and western markets. Last year when he found out that lie could not get fair prices for his yearlings at thoroughbred sales, he shipped a big consignment of mares he considered ordinary to Henderson. Kv.. and sold them to raisers of mules in western Kentucky. Missouri and Tennessee. The pedigrees of these mares were suppressed, of coarse. and they are lost to the thoroughbred world. There is. by the way. no better mare for breeding and rearing mules than the thoroughbred, and the hybrid produce is an animal of superior excellence. The thoroughbred mule, as the of spring of the Jack and the thoroughbred mare is known, after he attains maturity, is a handsomer, bigger and more docile and enduring animal than any other kind. They are especially prized iu the smth. where the mule is used more for farm work than the horse, ami they are especially popular with British army officers, who found them peculiarly serviceable iu South Africa during the Boer war.
