What practical use, for mankind, has the hair of a mule ?

Mule hair can be used to make brushes

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Originally posted by coldfuse:
Mule hair can be used to make brushes

Not what I has in mind I was not thinking of anything related to a horse

Ths may be off the wall, but mule hair was once used as a binder for masonry mortar. Most binders are now synthetic fibers.

I suppose you could clone a mule from a hair if the hair contained the follicle. Since mules are almost always sterile, this could be the only way of reproducing a championship line. (Don't ask me exactly what makes a mule a champion, or what a champion mule does, because I haven't a clue. But there are champion mules. Why, I don't know.)

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You people are not thinking of the right mule. The uses of the hair of the kind of mule you refer to apply equally to horse hair. The stuff I'm thinking of is more woolly

Mule Deer hair is used for tying fishing flies is that the right one Fred?
And No I don't fish
http://flyfisherman.com/ftb/chdeerhair/

The hair of the mule keeps the mule warm so he can continue to work for humans even when it's chilly out?

No! You townies, you!

A mule is a kind of sheep. It's a crossbreed. One half of the parentage is a Bluefaced Leicester, an old breed now put to good advantage since its genes are so beneficial in producing ewes that are longer than those of more modern breeds and so produce more lambs.

It is known in America:

Woolly mules

and an explanation of the benefits for you (and ewe) is here (click on 'the breed' and scroll down):

Ewes news

Hairy Mule

Furry Mule

Fuzzy Mules