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fortune aod 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 hundi'ed 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 



