The Bluegrass Claims Its Own 



tending up to the higher lands farther 

 west that form a natural barrier at this 

 point betwixt the little river of the 

 plains and the great body of blue water 

 rolling restlessly beyond the Calumet. 

 Notwithstanding the refractory char- 

 acter of the soil upon these gentle 

 slopes, the Brick House farm was made 

 for many years, through the amelior- 

 ating influences of a livestock hus- 

 bandry, to produce fine yields of oats 

 and occasional good crops of corn. 

 But such lands primarily belong to 

 bluegrass, and as this fitted in exactly 

 with the plans of the new proprietors, it 

 was not long after they took possession 

 that mowers and rakes replaced plows, 

 harrows, cultivators and harvesters 

 as the only implements in use. 



The major portion of the property 

 spread out before the big, new house 

 was set aside, by those who were plan- 

 ning this co-operative country home, 

 for conversion from waving grain fields 

 into a modern golf links, and needless 



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