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grown tlirougli changed conditions, competition, and a 

 desire to build up these societies, and these existing con- 

 ditions were unavoidable. This wliole matter can be 

 summed up in very few words. If the receipts in this trot- 

 ting department are sufficient to pay the purses, it is all 

 right ; but if they are not, the agricultural interest p&ys the 

 bills, and it is all wrong. 



