The Mule: A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put

by Harvey Riley

CATARRH OR COLDS.

This disease seldom attacks the mule. We have had many thousands of them in camp, and out of the whole number, I do not recollect of a case where it either destroyed or disabled a single animal. In fact, it is a question with me whether mules will take cold when kept as the Government keeps them--camped out, or standing in sheds where the temperature is the same as outdoors.