FARMING IN THE BLUEGRASS EEGION. 



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should be similar in quality. The stock-with-no-tobacco type of farm 

 is the largest in area and usually much of the pasture land is hilly and 

 of poor quality, hence would not be expected to utilize pasture area as 

 efficiently as could be done on lands better in quality and higher in 



Fig. 12. — Typical bluegrass pasture. Bluegrass occupies from one-third to more than 

 , one-half of the farm area on the stock farms. 



price. The tobacco farms and the " general mixed " farms would 

 seem to have higher quality of land, yet there is comparatively low 

 efficiency in the utilization of pasture area. These types specialize on 

 crops and apparently have neglected to utilize fully pasture land. 



RELATION OF TYPE OF FARM TO CROP YIELD. 



Table XV shows for the year 1913 the yield of various crops in the 

 region. 



Table XV. — Average yield of croj)s on farms of various types. 



Type of farm. 



Number 



of 

 records. 



Yield of 

 corn. 



Yield of 

 tobacco. 



Yield of 

 wheat. 



Yield of 



rye. 



Yield of 

 oat hay. 



Yield of 

 hay. 



Tobacco 



31 



61 

 36 

 31 

 18 

 10 



Bushels. 

 30.5 

 33.1 

 30.6 

 36.6 

 44.2 

 29.6 



Pounds. 

 1,196 

 1,112 

 1,093 

 1,192 



.1,054 



Bushels. 

 17.7 

 14.5 

 17.0 

 15.0 

 14.5 

 19.6 



Bushels. 



9.1 

 10.0 

 10.4 

 10.3 



7.14 



Tons. 

 0.67 



.94 

 1.26 

 1.40 



.SS 



Tons. 

 1.09 



Tobacco stock 



1.06 



Oeneral mixed 



1.12 





.93 





.85 



Dairy 



1.10 













187. 



34.5 



1. 132 



16.0 



9.9 



1.06 



1.05 







As is pointed out in Table IV, page 12, the corn crop was cut 

 short by drought. The corn crop is important in proportion to 



