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fortune and wealth was opened, and many a farmer, 

 into whose brain the idea of making a dollar in any 

 other way than by the production of milk and butter 

 had never entered, prompted by the success of a 

 neighbor, turned his attention to breeding horses, and 

 forthwith concluded " to put the old mare." 



Mr. Rysdyk, taking advantage of this state of 

 affairs, raised his price for the services of Hamble- 

 tonian to seventy-five dollars, at which price, in the 

 season of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, he 

 covered one hundred and fifty mares, and got ninety- 

 two colts. The next season, eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-four, the price was again raised to one hundred 

 dollars. Two hundred and seventeen mares were 

 covered, and one hundred and forty-eight colts got. 

 In eighteen hundred and sixty-five the price was raised 

 to three hundred dollars to insure, one hundred dol- 

 lars of which was to be paid at the time of service. 

 During this season one hundred and ninety-three 

 mares were served, and one hundred and twenty-eight 

 colts got. The following season, eighteen hundred 



