4 BULLETIN 482, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Many of the people who settled in this region brought with them 

 from Virginia, and a few from the Carolinas, the fine traditions 

 of the country house and the gentleman farmer. They had the same 

 interests in the breeding of high quality of live stock which has long 

 characterized the English farmers. Many dwellings were built in 

 a substantial manner, often of brick. (See fig. 4.) Most of these 

 still stand and give the country an atmosphere of ease, comfort, and 

 sometimes luxury. 



A great many of the farms are still owned and operated by those 

 who inherited them from the original owners. There is reason to 

 believe that the present owners are farming in the same spirit as 

 their ancestors and with as good success. 



Fig. 3. — A typical bluegrass farmstead. 



A few tracts have been bought up and are operated on a showy 

 and expensive scale, with probably very little, if any, profit to the 

 owners. 



Tobacco culture enables the small-sized farm to carry a compara- 

 tively large business, so that there are many prosperous farms 40 

 to 100 acres in size. 



In traveling through the country for the first time one is impressed 

 by the large proportion of farm area in bluegrass pasture. Over 

 the fields are scattered fine forest trees, providing shade for stock. 

 These large areas in pasture and scattered trees suggest that the 

 farmers devote their attention largely to live stock. The bluegrass 



