KENTUCKY 
phatic shale, so that farms one hundred 
years old show but little sign of exhaus- 
tion. Then there are swamps and bar- 
rens where there is insufficient drainage 
containing about fifteen hundred square 
miles. 
Although the soil of Kentucky is well 
adapted to horticulture, its climate mild 
and the physical conditions favorable, yet 
horticultural industries have not been ex- 
tensively followed. Since the war there 
have been developed near Louisville and 
Cincinnati large orchards and grape vine- 
yards, and apples in various districts. 
There is a fruit district in Kentucky 
known as the Muldraugh hill, an eleva- 
tion of low mountains extending in a 
southeasterly direction from the Ohio 
river in Meade county through Hardin, 
Lane and Greene counties in which ap- 
ples, peaches, pears and other fruits all 
reach a high state of perfection. The 
trees in this district are long-lived and 
the fruit brings good prices in the mar- 
kets. 
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In these regions it is possible to pro- 
duce high-grade fruit, but statistics do 
not show that there is the same intelli- 
gent progress in fruit-growing as is mani- 
fest in the growing of stock. It is true, 
however, that fruits to which value is 
added by deep coloring will be grown 
more successfully, other things being 
equal, in an arid atmosphere of hot sun- 
shine during the day and of cool nights. 
The number of bearing apple trees in 
Kentucky in 1910 is reported to be 
5,538,267; peaches and nectarines, 2,245,- 
402; pears, 337,355; plums and prunes, 
355,858; cherries, 212,118; grapes, 605,002 
vines; small fruits, 4,887 acres; nuts, 21,- 
339 trees. 
The counties producing the largest 
number of apples are: Breckenridge, 185,- 
570; Greene, 109,489; Hardin, 164,387; 
Hopkins, 124,278; Jefferson, 109,215; 
Meade, 261,298; Pulaski, 146,890. 
GRANVILLE LOWTHER 
Frost and Precipitation in Kentucky 
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Frost Precipitation 
Average Date of | Date of 
Station al 
First Last | First Last umue 
Killing in in | in in 
Autumn Spring | Autumn Spring 
Louisville.............5. Oct. 29 April 6 ; Sept. 24 May 14 44..5 
Shelbyville. ............ Oct. 8 April 14 Sept. 22 May 22 44.3 
Lexington.............6. Oct. 25 April 12 Sept. 30 May 20 42.5 
Mount Sterling......... Oct. 9 April 23 Sept. 21 May 20 46.4 
Leitchfield.............. Oct. 20 April 12 Sept. 30 May 21 48 .2 
Eubank................. Oct. 10 April 25 Sept. 14 May 20 46.8 
Paducah................ Oct. 27 Mar. 30 Sept. 30 April 13 44.2 
Erlington............... Oct. 17 April 7 Sept. 30 April 23 48 4 
Edmonton.............. Oct. 11 April 17 Sept. 14 May 22 48.1 
Middlesboro............ Oct. 18 April 19 | Sept. 21 May 21 50.3 
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Keeping Our CHILDREN ON THE FARM. 
See under Farms. 
Kurgirat Prerer. See History of Or- 
charding in Old Oregon. 
