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The speed and endurance of the Kentucky horse, and the superior 

 development of all kinds of domestic animals of the State, are well 

 known. 



Kentucky takes high rank as an agricultural State, notwithstanding 

 the large area of coal measure rocks and the extent of forests in the 

 State More than one half the State is covered with virgin forests, the 

 State being only exceeded in area of woodlands by three other States; 

 yet it ranks as the eighth State in value of agricultural products 



No State or country is susceptible of greater variety of products, 

 as is well shown by the following table, compiled from the United 

 States Census reports. It will be seen that in each decade it excelled 

 all other States in the production of some one or more staple articles : 





1840. 



1850. 



i860. 



1870. 





First 

 Second. 



Ninth. 

 Second. 



Ninth. 



Fourth. 



Second. 



Fifth. 



Second. 



Third. 



Fifth. 



First. 



Ninth. 



Fourth. 



Eighth. 





Fifth. 

 Third. 





Second. 



First. 



Second. 



First. 



Eighth. 



First. 



Seventh. 



Fifth. 



Sixth.* 





First, f 





Third. 



Fourth. 



First. 



Eleventh. 



Eighth. 





Fifth. 

 First. 



Wool 



Twelfth. 





Twelfth. 





Eighth. 







The lands of Central Kentucky have been cultivated for 70 years 

 and more without manure, and the production now, with good cultiva- 

 tion, is equal to the best farming lands of England. 



The soils of the Blue -Grass Region were formerly thought unfitted 

 to the production of fine tobacco; but the high price and increasing 

 demand for a certain class of tobacco has led to an extended planting in 

 that region, and instances are frequent where lands which have been in 

 cultivation for several generations, have yielded, during the past year, 

 from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of tobacco, worth from 15 cents to 20 cents 

 per pound. There is np danger, with a proper rotation, of exhausting 

 such lands by tobacco culture. After tobacco, wheat and clover succeed 

 well, and a few years in clover prepares the land for another large yield 



*The greater price per bushel realized in Kentucky for Indian corn, over the corn 

 grown in the West, would place this State higher in the list were the value of this crop 

 given. 



tin 1870 Kentucky produced near one half of all the tobacco produced in the United 

 States, and more than one half of all the hemp The production of tobacco in this 

 State increased from 105.305,860 pounds in 1870 to 158.184,^29 pounds in 1873. The 

 returns for the census of 1880 are not yet published; but the present tobacco crop is the 

 .largest ever produced in the State, and the yield of hemp from a few counties in Central 

 .Kentucky will be three fourths the entire product of the United States. 



