Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-03

Kentuckian, went forth to seek his
fortune and found it in oil in Next
co. He imported a small army of
Mexican laborers to beautify his es-
tate with roads and lakes and to
build around it a great stone wall
such as a feudal lord of England
might have fancied in Middle Ages.
Not all of the handsome breeding
plants one sees in driving through
the Bluegrass are nurseries of thor
oughbred horses. For example, near
the Camden farm is a breeding plant
at which Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr.,
a veteran distiller, beginning live
stock raising when he was eighty
years old assembled what is declared
to be the largest and most select
herd OF Hereford cattle ever owned
by one man. He chose some of his
early bulls and COWS from the herds
OF the king at Windsor Castle, but
cattle journals give him high credit
as an improver of the breed. He
has sold premium winners at prices
almost incredible to persons unfa-
miliar with the possibilities in the
Hereford breeding industry.
Colonel Taylor, who is not far be-
yond ninety today, and looks seven
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tie as the late James B. Haggin of
Green Hills was in horses when he
was famous as the owner of the
largest number of thoroughbred
mares the world had seen under one
ownership.
High Prices for Hogs
Across the pike from the Taylor
cattle farm two brothers whose
fathers life ambition was to win the
Kentucky Derby, transformed a thor
oughbred farm into a hog farm and
began what they termed a more con-
structive industry. Animals at prices
as high as $4,000 sold from the
home of the red hog have rewarded
their efforts. Their contention is that
the soil and limestone water which
produce famous horses are just as
potent factors in producing fine hogs.
The limestone water of central
Kentucky, which is said to have been
a controlling factor in making the
Bourbon whiskey of this state excel
lent in days of licensed distilling,
has a spectacular manifestation at
Georgetown, one of the minor cities
of the Bluegrass Region whose water
supply comes solely from a spring
that gushes from beneath a ledge in
a stream large enough to supply sew
eral centers of population as large
as the one it serves. The big spring
almost duplicated at Spring Station
in Woodford county, is visited by
many travellers junketing through
the section.
A leisurely inspection of the many
excellent examples of colonial AM
early post-colonial domestic archi-
lecture which may be seen in Wood
ford, Scott, Bourbon, Fayette. Mason.
Madison, Clark, Mercer, Boyle and
other counties, may be preferred to
trotting about stockfarms at the
heels of obliging hosts who extend a
true Kentucky welcome. These ole
homes, looking down long avenues
from groves of oak and maple be-
speak the delight of the Kentucky
planter OF the slave-holding period
in seelusion. Many of the private
roads r SO long that their upkeep
in these days of automobiles entails
considerable expense and not every
great house with a pillared front is
supplied with half the number OF
servants it had in the days when the
slave quarters were filled with free
labor. In the main, however. life
seems TO run In its old agfeeapls
channels in Kentucky. At least that
is the impression that is made upon
a traveller who is content with Gimp
ses of homesteads as he spins along
the road.
The greatest, and the saddest
change time has wrought in this re-
gion is the destruction of trees fol
farming, particularly tobacco plant
ing. There are far fewer WOODS
pastures than there were years ago
Many of the remaining forest trees
are dying at the top. because ap'
parently deforestration lessened the
moisture. Few landowners othei
than the millionaire holders OF greal
estates. r planting trees. In thi'
respect Kentucky resembles England
more than it resembles France, TO
upon the continent there always ma;
been high appreciation of the value
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