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KENTUCKY CROPS BURNING UP Farm Owners Find Hay and Tobacco Badly in Need of Rain Unusually Dry. LEXINGTON, Ky., June . 16. Col. E. R. Bradley arrived at Idle Hour Farm Saturday night after having spent that day at Latonia. He will be at the farm for another three or four days, giving attention to income tax matters and to inspection of the farm and the stallions, mares, foals and yearlings. While here he will also see Boilermaker, which is in training at Hunter C. Moodys stable at the Lexington Fair Grounds and may stand again. General manager E. R. Burch, of Hialeah Park, Miami, Fla., is at Idle Hour Farm with Colonel Bradley and manager Barry Shannon. Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords are at Faraway Farm and will be returning to their home at Glen Riddle, Pa., this week. They have been inspecting the farm and the breeding stock, foals and yearlings. . - These visiting farm-owners have found the blue grass section unusually dry, and they are distressed about the browning condition, of their pastures. Many are already feeding hay and grain, as is the custom in the winter time. Roy Carruthers, who came from Chicago Saturday night to spend three or four days at Versailles and Lexington, said this morning: "If there is no rain during the next four days, I will have no worries about tobacco and hay, for the tobacco plants will be burned out and there will be no hay to cut." Horace N. Davis, owner of Blue Grass Heights Farm, one of the best posted farmers among the breeders of thoroughbred horses, today said: "The shortage of the hay crop and small grain crops in Kentucky this year will be such as to compel breeders and feeders to buy more than usual from other states." m
