COKKESPONDENCE OF THE CINCINNATUS. 



BY A TRAVELING AGENT. 



A month's, travel south of the Queen City, gave the writer a pretty 

 fair introduction to the " garden " of the State of Kentucky, as the 

 counties of Scott, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, AVoodford, 

 and Boyle, laying in a body back from the Ohio, the distance of 

 some sixty miles, may truly be termed, 



THE BLUE GRASS REGION, 



In which these counties lie, has the most productive lands in the 

 State. The soil is underlayed with the blue semi-crystaline lime- 

 stone ; indeed, other counties of land surrounding the above — Har- 

 rison, Montgomery, Madison, Shelby, Franklin, Mercer and Mason; 

 do not difler materially in geological formation, and practical results 

 in a proper culture of the soil. The lime demarking this region 

 may be said to pass from the Ohio, round the head of Licking and 

 Kentucky rivers, Dick's river, and down great Green river to the 

 Ohio. It covers an area of about one hundred square miles, and 

 is one of the most fertile counties ever cultivated by man ; its pro- 

 ductions are usually luxuriant, and its tall grass hardly ever so nipt 

 either by the browsing of cattle, or frosts of winter, but that from 

 the salubrity of the climate there is always an ample supply of fod- 

 der for stock in the field. The woods, long since stripped of their 

 undergrowth and celebrated cane-brakes, are beautifully open and 

 covered with a thick, green carpet of grass, truly inviting to the 

 taste of the lowing herd. 



Kentuckians have the name of raising the most superior cattle in 

 the country ; well may they, for the facilities are abundant. Their 

 best, most scientific and well-read farmers know how to appreciate 

 them, and will ISe the means of causing this State to rank the high- 

 est, for horse and cattle raising. The railroads completed, and fast 

 verging to completion, passing through this region, are rousing the 

 hitherto Eip Van Winkle class to their superior advantages, and all 

 are stimulated to excel in scientific agriculture. Too many are yet 

 wrapped in self-conceit, and repudiate " book-farming," but all who 

 have given it the least possible attention, have a taste for more, and 

 acknowledge their ignorance of many things in their "line." It is 

 a fact, that those who read the most, have the greatest desire to read 



and compare their experience in the various soils. 

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