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can here learn all kinds of farming, and also stock-breeding, from 

 the most intelligent breeders in America. . . . One of our 

 United States Senators came to Kentucky a poor Scotch lad, and 

 went on a farm at ten dollars per month. I will take pleasure in 

 co-operating with you in your good work." 



The Hon. John S. Williams, United States Senator for 

 Kentucky, writes as follows : 



" United States Senate Ghambejr, 



" Washington, October 13th, 1881. 



"■ Dear Sirs, 



" I think well of your plan of introducing into Kentucky 

 young Englishmen who wish to learn American modes of business. 

 I think Kentucky the most desirable of all the States of the Union 

 for the better class of English emigrants. The Kentuckians are 

 nearly all descended from English ancestors, and have still strongly- 

 mai'ked traits of EngHsh character. There is a striking resem- 

 blance between the blue-grass region of Kentucky and some of the 

 best portions of England. 



" As an agricultural and stock-raising country, Kentucky has 

 no equal on the American continent. The other States all come 

 to Kentucky for their fine horses and cattle. Not an American 

 horse has won a race in England that did not come from Kentucky. 

 The soil is of siu'prising fertility, and the climate so mild that 

 men may work on our farms every day in the year. Geological 

 survey shows that Kentucky has more coal and iron than the 

 whole of Great Britain. The farmers of Kentucky, as you must 

 have observed, are superior to those of any other State of our 

 Union. Kentucky is the only State where the rich and educated 

 people reside upon and cultivate their own farms. I am a farmer 

 myself, and produce tobacco, wheat, Indian corn, sheep, and short- 

 horn cattle ; and within the last year have sold from oil a farm of 

 1,200 acres 32,000 dollars' worth of products, without touching a 

 short-horn, and this without any artificial manure. I usuaDy get 

 100 bushels of Indian corn, 35 bushels of wheat, 75 bushels of 

 oats, and 1,500 pounds of White Burley tobacco to the acre. 



** I sold a few weeks since my last year's crop of tobacco at a 

 price which averaged me 300 dollars to the acre. I gave the 

 tenants one-haK for their work, which left me 150 dollars clear 

 rent to the acre. Our climate is healthy, and nowhere in the 

 world is animal hfe, both in man and the lower animals, to be 

 found in a more vigorous and perfect existence than in Kentucky. 



" Very truly yours, 



'' JOHN S. WILLIAMS.^' 



