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Old 11-19-2017, 09:12 AM   #33
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Default ... mules & donkeys vs. the tractor?

Mechanical tractors have been in use for maybe 100-years, with mules or donkeys in use for hundreds or thousands of years before the tractor. Maybe the big switch from donkeys and mules over to the mechanical tractors came in the late 1940's after the WWII was over. Wasn't there a Civil War program starting in 1865 with the promise of '40-acres and a mule.' .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule .... coming from the federal gov.

It is not very common at all to see donkey's or mules in use any more for doing the work of a tractor.

Are there any donkeys or mules in use in the central NH area doing "tractor" type jobs such as plowing fields, removing fallen trees ..... anything that donkeys can do?
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