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The Plantation Agriculture Museum in Scott, Arkansas, is a local museum showcasing the agricultural history of the area.Located near the Pulaski County and Lonoke County line, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County), the museum park sits in the Arkansas River lowlands, near the north shore of Horseshoe Lake.
[14]: 14–16 In 1902, a breeding syndicate to promote Poitou mules was created, but disappeared after a lack of advertising by stock breeders. On August 6, 1912, the French government released a decree officially supporting the mule breeding industry, backed by the purchase of mules by the Haras Nationaux and bonuses given to the best stallions.
The packhorse, mule or donkey was a critical tool in the development of the Americas. In colonial America, Spanish, French, Dutch and English traders made use of pack horses to carry goods to remote Native Americans and to carry hides back to colonial market centers.
Mule production was an important industry in Poitou for three hundred years or more, and the number of mule foal births may have reached 30,000 per year. [2]: 40 In the early twentieth century there were about 50,000 Poitevin Mulassier brood mares, which gave birth to some 18,000–20,000 mule foals per year. [3]: 156
The Italian Heavy Draft was originally bred to be a versatile horse used in agriculture, urban settings, and military capacities, as well as for the production of large mules for the military. [2] The breed's docility, size, strength, and speed made it extremely useful for Italian farmers before the introduction of mechanization. [ 6 ]
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The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse.It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). [1] [2] The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two possible first-generation hybrids between them, the mule is easier to obtain and more common than the hinny, which is the offspring of a male horse ...