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 
im 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 
Wic. 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 1840 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 
