The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-04
Touring the BLUEGRASS State
Beautiful Scenes Make Region One of Most Attractive Tour
ing Spots in the Whole Country.

lord of England might have fancied IN
the Middle Ages. 80 --
Not all of the handsome breeding
plants one sees in driving through the
Bluegrass are nurseries of thorough
bred horses. For example, near the
Camden farm is breeding plant a.
which Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr., vet
eran distiller, beginning livestock rails.
ing when he was eighty years old as
sembIed what is declared to be the
largest and most select herd of Here
ford cattle ever owned by one man.
He chose some of his early bulls and
COWS from the herds of the King az
Windsor Castle, but cattle journait
give him high credit as an improver
of the breed. He has sold premium
winners at prices almost. Incredible t.
persons unfamiliar with the possibili-
ties in the Hereford breeding industry
Colonel Taylor, who is not far be-
You'd 80 today, and looks 70, still is
as much interested in cattle as the
late James B. Haggin of Green Hills
was in horses when he was famous as
the owned of the largest number of
thoroughbred mares the world had
seen under one ownership.
High Prices
For Hogs.
Across the pike from the Taylor cat
tie farm two brothers whose fathers
life ambition was to win the Kentucky
Derby, transformed a thoroughbred
farm into hog farm and began what
they termed a more constructive indus
try. Animals at prices as high as
$4,000 sold from the home of the red
h0o no -5oI y, a.
contention is that the soil and lime
stone water which produce famous
horses are just as potent factors in
producing fine hogs. -
The limestone water of central Ken
lucky, which is said to have been
controlling factor in making the Bour,
bon whiskey of this state excellent
in the days of licensed distilling, has
a spectacular manifestation at George
town, one of the minor cities of the
! Bluegrass region whose water supply
comes solely from spring that gush-
es from beneath a ledge in stream
large enough to supply several centers
of population as large as the one It
! serves. The big spring, almost duplt
| Gated 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 and ear
! ly post-colonial domestic architecture
which may be seen in Woodford, Scott,
Bourbon, Fayette, Mason, Madison,
Clark, Mercer, Boyle and other count
les, may be preferred to trotting abou.
| stockfarms at the heels of obligating
l hosts who extend a true Kentucky wei
come. These old homes, looking down
long avenues from groves of oak and
maple bespeak the delight of the Ken
i lucky planter of the slave-holding per
iod in seclusion. Many of the private
roads are so long that their upkeep IN
these days of automobiles entails con
siderable expense and not every great
house with a pillared front is supplied
with half the number of servants i
had in the days when the slave quart
ers were filled with free labor. In
!, the main, however, life seems to rur
/. in its old agreeable channels in Ken
lucky. At least that is the impression
: that is made upon a traveller who is
content with glinnpses of homesteadS
, as he spins along the road.
The greatest and the saddest change
: time has wrought in this region is the
destruction of trees for farming, par
ticularly tobacco planting. There arS
far fewer woods pastures than there
! were years ago. Many of the remain
5 ing forest trees are dying at the top
! because apparently deforestratioI
lessened the moisture. Few landown
I ers other than the millionaires hold
: ers of great estates, are planting trees
| In this respect Kentucky resemble
! England more than it resemble
1 France, for upon the Continent Their,
: always has been high appreciation o
! the value of conserving timber.