FARMING IN" THE BLUEGRASS REGION. 5 



farmer is prejudiced in favor of live-stock farming and will cling to 

 it as a type as long as he can. Next to live stock in importance is the 

 white Burley tobacco, a crop well adapted to the region, so that these 

 two enterprises characterize this section agriculturally and are at 

 present the main sources of income. 



HISTORY OF BLUEGRASS FARM ENTERPRISES. 



It is a well-known fact that the acreage of crops varies from year 

 to year because of the variation in prices. The amount of live stock 

 kept on farms varies also for the same reason. Prices for a product 

 in one section are, as a rule, made permanently lower than the cost 

 of production if the same can be produced in another section at a 



Fig. 4. — Type of the large modern farm house. 



lower cost and in adequate quantities. Again, by experience or 

 through discovery, a more profitable enterprise may be substituted 

 for another. Any of these causes or a combination of them will 

 result in relatively permanent changes in the agriculture of a region. 

 Tables I and II give a history of the several enterprises developed 

 in this region from 1840 to 1910 according to figures of the United 

 States census. These figures show that the agricultural resources 

 here were well developed as early as 1810 and that their total pro- 

 duction was not far behind that of 1910. Changes in the relative 

 importance of the several enterprises, however, have occurred. 

 Swine, for instance, were much more important prior to 1860 than at 



