The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-20
EDITORIAL
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
u.-Oklahoma and Some Impressions En- Route.
Editorial Correspondence

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announced some time ago that hereafter, when
seized by desire to enjoy the luxuries of modern
travel. he would simply throw half his money out
the window put couple of cinders in each eye,
and go to bed on the shelf
While on the cars there are times when one is
inclined to look with favor the Irish philoso-
piers substitute for travelling; but when the train
stops and we find new scenes, people, new
problems there is a pleasure about it that makes
us say as David Harum did when he away
to see the circus and was whipped for it, "Well,
it's worth it,"
In Old Kentucky.
So it would be worth a good deal of unpleasant
travelling to be out here in Oklahoma, "the Land
of the Fair God" but really my travelling for the
most part has been very pleasant. And now it is
my purpose my Dear Reader, to give you mere
gossipy letter about what interests
gossipy letter about what interest
travel across the country. / shall not try to be
you just as if you were good, whole-souled chum
of mine with interest in almost everything
human. Last week l did try at some length to in
terpret the meaning of "the winning of the West"
and this left little space for comment the
- trip here.
\ = The mountains of Western North Carolina and
East Tennessee were familiar to me, we'll as the
prosperous farming country of sister State,
but not until this trip had seen the bluegrass
country of old Kentucky; and nothing else
impressed me on my way to St. Louis Kentucky
is more like England, Prof Collier Cobb tells me,
than any other part of America-and this makes
me<all the more desirous to see England. For
bluegrass Kentucky is indeed Goods country"
as it is called in chat sngularly beautiful story,
"The Little Shepherd of K;~rdom Come" The
gentle slopes, the pleasant valleys, the shady
groves, the wide lawns-all are covered With such
carpet of velvetv green to make realize
more than ever before the beauty of King David's
song, "He maketh me to lie down in green pas
lures; he leadeth me beside the still waters"
But the picture would lose half, it's beauty if it
were not for the sleek, contented animals that
look their pleasure as you pass by them Here
are the cattle on thousand hills. Here, too-of
course-are horses. Kentucky horses; and their
fame has not abated. The Kentucky people still
know how to raise them. Andrew Carnegie sent
man out here to see about buying one some
time ago. and the breeder showed him some horses
with marvellous records, but with age alas COM
ing on them, and some younger horses not yet
broken, but with such pedigrees as to insure re-
markable performances. "Well, you have shown
me your has-beens and your going-to-be's,'' said
the prospective buyer. 'but what I want is an
ls-er And he got it, for they have is-ers here in
the bluegrass. saw colts in one mornings
ride than had seen in the Carolinas for year.
Whatever it may have been in Boone's time.
Kentucky is no clark and bloody ground" :"
and / must more of it. A friend of mine
who was there last year says that the beautiful
social life. such was found in the ante-bellum
South. is more manly preserved in Kentucky than
anywhere else. And how I should like to see in
real life Chad Buford and his own beautiful Mar