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with peculiar notions as to horse improvement, when 

 she became his exclusive property bred her to a 

 Belgian horse, after which her usefulness came to 

 an end. The filly Eose 604 by the Baker Horse 21 

 was bred as a two-year-old to Pleasant Valley Bill 

 and produced three fillies in successive years to his 

 cover. All of these were prolific, so that the de- 

 scendants of old Doll 540 are very numerous. 



Kentucky Importation of 1859. — Following the 

 Darby Plains Importing Company 's venture of 1857, 

 the Kentucky importation of 1859 takes chronologi- 

 cal precedence. This consisted of a stallion named 

 Napoleon 4th 1723 and a mare named Marie An- 

 toinette. This importation was made by Dr. Nove, 

 or Nave, for the Jessamine Importing Co., Nicholas- 

 ville, Ky., and the horse was later transferred to 

 Gen. W. C. Preston, Lexington, as whose property 

 he died in 1878. The mare died in 1863 and here 

 once more we find no lasting impression left upon 

 the native equine stock. 



Massax;husetts Importation of 1864. — ^About the 

 end of the sixth and opening of the seventh decades 

 of the nineteenth century prospects in agricultural 

 America were not such as to encourage private in- 

 vestment of large sums in any kind of live stock; 

 indeed it was not until 1864 that further importa- 

 tions were attempted. In that year the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural Society imported the stallions 

 Conqueror 108 and Orleans 255 and the mares Em- 

 press 542, Lyons 574, and Normandy 587. Here 

 again we run up against the dead wall of oblivion, 



