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that by buying mares at low prices, thus 

 reducing the risk to a minimum, and by 

 suitably mating them, there is remunera- 

 tion in store for such enterprise. How 

 much better business it would be for 

 farmers to breed something at small 

 expense such as I have suggested, with 

 the possibility of making from £']o to 

 ;^ioo at four years old, than purchasing 

 the three-cornered wretches they are for 

 ever buying out of the second-class Irish 

 and Welsh droves at fairs and markets ! 

 These really are the dearest class of 

 horse a man can possibly buy, as with 

 the best of luck they never can, at any 

 subsequent period of their career, ever 

 be worth more than their original cost 

 out of the drove. 



I have not any statistics at hand 

 giving the number of horses imported 

 annually from America to this country ; 



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