4 ADVANTAGES OF KENTUCKY. 



of tobacco. As an instance of what can be done with Kentucky lands 

 when worn by improper cultivation, the writer has personal knowledge 

 of the following, which is but one of many similar examples: 



Farmer M purchased, ten years since, an old " worn-out" farm — 



having been rented for a number of years to careless tenants. At the 

 time of purchase the land would not produce over 25 bushels of Indian 

 corn per acre; by a proper rotation, using no manure, and making 

 money all the while from the farm, the yield of corn has been increased 

 to an average of 60 bushels per acre. There are no lands in Kentucky 

 which may not be restored in this manner. 



The nearness of Kentucky to large and growing markets ; * the 

 increase of manufacturing and mining in the State, and to the North 

 and South ; the large demands for grain by the cotton-growing States 

 on the South, insures to the farmer here remunerative prices for all farm 

 products, without the necessity of paying the cost of long freightage 

 to profitable markets. The farmer from Great Britain will probably 

 find in Kentucky conditions more alike to his own country than else- 

 where in America. A recent visitor to this State.f after describing the 

 excellent macadam roads, substantial stone walls, and other fencing of 

 Central Kentucky, adds: " It is a region reminding the traveler of the 

 very richest part of England, while the frequent comfortable houses will 

 remind him that he is not in England, but in a country where the farmer 

 owns the land and spends his substance upon it." 



Probably no other State in the Union has a population as purely 

 English in descent as Kentucky. Of the total population (by the cen- 

 sus of 1880) of 1,648,599, only 271,522 are colored, and 59468 foreign 

 born. 



Kentucky has hitherto made no effort to induce immigration, and 

 the great lines of travel connecting the East and West passed north of 

 the State. This, and the fact that the railways of the North and West 

 owned large tracts of land, and spread broadcast publications to induce 

 immigration, has carried the great tide of immigration north and west 

 of the State. The great advantages afforded by this State are now 

 attracting attention, and, for the first time in the history of the country, 

 persons from the newly-settled States of the Northwest are seeking 

 homes in Kentucky and States south of the Ohio river. 



*The census of 1H70 placed the centre of population of the United States near the- 

 northern border of Kentucky. The present census will probably place the centre within, 

 the border of this State. 



t Mr. Edward Atkinson. 



