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  Kentucky - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kentucky has had a rich and varied history since frontier times, when it was the haunt of Daniel Boone and other famous pioneers.
Kentucky slowly recovered from the war, and in the remaining decades of the 19th century, its people began to develop the manufacturing sector of the state’s economy that remains its cornerstone today.
Within Kentucky are sections of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, two of the chief tributaries of the Ohio River.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554924/Kentucky.html   (1259 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass Turfs in Illinois
Kentucky bluegrass is the principal turfgrass used in Illinois, especially in the northern two-thirds of the state.
Kentucky bluegrass forms an attractive, high quality turf, often with emerald to dark green, medium- to fine-textured foliage.
These Kentucky bluegrasses were irrigated to prevent stress, were mowed at 1.75 to 2.0 inches and received 2 to 4 pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet per year.
www.turf.uiuc.edu /extension/ext-kbgfact.html   (1280 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass
Kentucky bluegrass grows 18 to 24 inches tall if left uncut and is readily identified by its boat-shaped leaf tip.
Leaf blades of Kentucky bluegrass remain green for 10 to 12 days during the growing season and the typical shoot has 3 to 4 green leaves, at any one time.
In the southern U.S., Kentucky bluegrass is limited to the transition zone from North Carolina, through much of Tennessee, northern Arkansas to the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma.
www.american-lawns.com /grasses/bluegrass_ky.html   (473 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass lawn and grass seed - Planting Bluegrass lawns, pastures, turf grass and sports fields from seed.
Bluegrass has a later green-up period and is often seeded specifically with ryegrasses for this reason.
Bluegrass develops a shallow root system and is not a high drought tolerant grass, but it has the ability to go dormant in severe situations and can recover if watered intermittently keeping the lawn minimally growing during drought.
Bluegrass seeds are easy to harvest and has developed into one of the species with the largest number of varieties of any grass seed.
www.bluegrasses.com   (806 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass
Kentucky bluegrass reproduces from seeds, tillers, and rhizomes.
Kentucky bluegrass is often an indication of overuse of rangelands.
On clayey soils with Kentucky bluegrass that is heavily grazed, excessive overland flow of water is common, often causing the formation of gullies, which results in serious watershed damage.
extension.usu.edu /rangeplants/Grasses/kentuckybluegrass.htm   (580 words)

  
 What is Kentucky Bluegrass?
Kentucky bluegrass is a particular type of music, most often compared with folk music, with origins in the southern US.
Kentucky bluegrass is generally played on banjos, guitars, fiddles, mandolins, and other stringed instruments.
Kentucky bluegrass was born in the mid 1940s.
www.wisegeek.com /what-is-kentucky-bluegrass.htm   (362 words)

  
 Kentucky Department of Tourism - Symbols & Traditions
Kentucky is one of four states to call itself a "commonwealth." In 1792 when Kentucky became the 15th state - the first on the western frontier - both "commonwealth" and "state" were used.
Bluegrass is not really blue - it's green - but in the spring, bluegrass produces bluish-purple buds that, when seen in large fields, give a rich blue cast to the grass.
Early pioneers found bluegrass growing on Kentucky's rich limestone soil and traders began asking for the seed of the "blue grass from Kentucky." The name stuck and today Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.
www.kentuckytourism.com /about/facts/symbols.htm   (471 words)

  
 Gardening Resources, Cornell University
Kentucky bluegrass is the predominant high-quality lawn grass for northern climates.
Kentucky bluegrass requires irrigation to avoid summer dormancy associated with warm, dry conditions.
Kentucky bluegrass requires more than two weeks to emerge from seed sown in the soil, and over 6 to 8 weeks to produce a dense sod.
www.gardening.cornell.edu /lawn/lawncare/bluegras.html   (432 words)

  
 Bras and bluegrass
Kentucky bluegrass is to the environmentalist what a Victoria’s Secret catalog is to the feminist.
Bluegrass is habitually over-watered, and, although the turf can take it for awhile, innocent bystanders, such as lodgepole and pinon pine, cannot.
Kentucky bluegrass uses between four and six pounds of nitrogen per thousand square feet in a year.
www.colostate.edu /Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Lawns/bras.htm   (734 words)

  
 What Is The Bluegrass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bluegrass state, nickname of Kentucky) : country music played on unamplified stringed instrument (as banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin) and characterized by free improvisation and close high-pitched harmony.
bluegrass \-grass\ n 1: the 15-county region at the heart of central Kentucky characterized by unparalleled scenery and hospitality, legendary horse racing, rich tradition and living history.
bluegrass \-grass\ n 1: a region with a rich past with her citizens involved in every military conflict in the nations history.
www.bluegrasskentucky.com /what_is_the_bluegrass.htm   (185 words)

  
 Barenbrug Kentucky Bluegrass Varieties
Kentucky Bluegrass is a perennial sod-forming grass that spreads by strong rhizomes and seeds.
Therefore Kentucky Bluegrass is often used in combination with a faster-growing grass, such as Perennial Ryegrass, which will provide cover while the bluegrass establishes itself.
Kentucky Bluegrass can withstand frequent mowing and intensive wear, and is widely used for sports fields, fairways, lawns, and turf production.
www.barusa.com /Products_Turf/kentblue.htm   (368 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass bicycle Tour
The addition of Kentucky's Bluegrass Country to Timberline's program was the natural extension of our career commitment to western adventure.
Kentucky's historical and cultural heritage is rich and diverse.
Not surprisingly though, Kentucky never seceded from the Union, and, given its geographical position, was a pivotal battleground during the Civil War.
www.timbertours.com /HL_KBC.html   (598 words)

  
 AGR-134 KENTUCKY-BLUEGRASS AS A FORAGE CROP
Kentucky bluegrass, (Poa pratensis L.), is one of four cool season grasses that provide the backbone of forage systems in Kentucky.
Kentucky bluegrass is well adapted to the mountains and the high phosphate soils of central Kentucky.
Bluegrass is most famous for its use as horse pasture because of its association with the thoroughbred horse industry of central Kentucky.
www.ca.uky.edu /agc/pubs/agr/agr134/agr134.htm   (1530 words)

  
 Kentucky.gov: - Bluegrass Museum Lessons
Dubbed the Kentucky Bluegrass All-Stars, the group may grow to be the biggest bluegrass band in the world, organizers hope.
Bluegrass became part of Kentucky’s cultural identity when the music form was conceptualized by Bill Monroe, who was born in Rosine, Ky. in 1911.
The Kentucky Department of Tourism, an agency of the Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, exists to promote The Commonwealth as a travel destination, generate revenue and create jobs for Kentucky’s economy.
kentucky.gov /Newsroom/travel/bluegrasslessons.htm   (291 words)

  
 Introduction to Kentucky, The Bluegrass State Capital Frankfort
The Bluegrass State is famous for breeding horses, tobacco farms, fine bourbon, and, of course, the Kentucky Derby.
The Bluegrass State: This common nickname for the Kentucky is given because of the vast expanses of Bluegrass across parts of the Commonwealth.
Kentucky is well know for it's rolling Kentucky Bluegrass region, for horse breeding, and for it's horse racing.
www.netstate.com /states/intro/ky_intro.htm   (713 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kentucky bluegrass is a long lived sod-forming perennial grass.
Kentucky bluegrass is a palatable pasture plant making very early growth in the spring.
Kentucky bluegrass is adapted to the humid and subhumid sections of the northern half of the United States.  It does best under cool, humid conditions on highly fertile soils not prone to drought.
www.umass.edu /umext/programs/agro/crop_dairy/publications/kentblue.htm   (165 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass
Kentucky bluegrass is the most common cool season grass.
Bluegrass develops a shallow root system that is not very drought tolerant, and causes it to go dormant during extreme conditions.
Kentucky bluegrass was Introduced by colonists that brought it with them from Europe.
www.landscape-america.com /grasses/bluegrass_ky_trans.html   (229 words)

  
 Kentucky: History, Geography, Population, and State Facts — Infoplease.com
Kentucky, river, United States - Kentucky, river, 259 mi (417 km) long, formed by the junction of the North Fork and the Middle Fork...
Kentucky, state, United States - Kentucky, one of the so-called border states of the S central United States.
The Kentucky tragedy and the transformation of politics in the early American Republic.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108217.html   (396 words)

  
 Kentucky Physiographic Regions - Bluegrass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Bluegrass region of Kentucky is located near the center of the state and is bordered by the Ohio River in the north and west and a ring of hills known as the Knobs in the west, south, and east.
The details of the introduction of bluegrass to the area are obscure, but it is probably of Eurasian origin and arrived in central Kentucky before the first European settlers.
The Bluegrass region was the most quickly settled part of the state and now is home to about half the state's population.
www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/phys-bluegrass.html   (160 words)

  
 BluegrassReport.org
He is a member of the Kentucky Bar Association and has served on the Judicial Conduct Commission of Kentucky, the Kentucky Continuing Judicial Education Commission and the Ethics Committee of the Kentucky Judiciary.
While polls clearly show strong public support if the matter were presented for a vote, that doesn't mean that the issue is something voters want to be the foundation for the candidacy of their next governor, consider all that is wrong with Frankfort, or that it ranks high among a list of priorities.
Secondly, their declaration for casinos in Kentucky strikes me as odd since the Beshear-Mongiardo team was the brainchild of Tracy Farmer (one of Kentucky's great horsemen) and the deal was sealed at the farm of former Governor Brereton Jones (D) (another top horseman).
www.bluegrassreport.org   (8570 words)

  
 Bluegrass Region, Kentucky Geological Survey site
Although Kentucky is called the Blue Grass State, the Bluegrass physiographic region (shown in green) is restricted to the central part of the State where Ordovician (and some Silurian, and Devonian) age rocks are exposed at the surface.
The Kentucky River Palisades are cliffs in the gorge or canyon along the Kentucky River where it cuts through resistant massive limestones and dolostones (High Bridge Group).
The Outer Bluegrass (dark green on the map) is characterized by deeper valleys, with little flat land, because the bedrock in this area is mostly composed of interbedded Ordovician limestones and shales that are more easily eroded than the limestones of the Inner Bluegrass.
www.uky.edu /KGS/geoky/regionbluegrass.htm   (235 words)

  
 North Idaho Farmers Association - Kentucky Bluegrass, Barley, Canola, Potatoes
Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) forms rhizomes, or underground stems.
This spreading growth pattern makes Kentucky bluegrass a good choice for stabilizing soil on steep slopes.
Farmers plant bluegrass in the spring, and harvest the seed crop a year and a half later in the following fall.
www.northidahofarmers.org /bluegrass.html   (149 words)

  
 Bluegrass Institute
The Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky's free-market think tank, is featured in a story in today's New York Times that chronicles the impact of state policy groups in advancing liberty across the nation.
Kentucky’s legislators are required to support the constitution and pass a budget.
Kentucky’s teachers are underpaid and under-appreciated by the unions who are supposed to represent them and the education bureaucracy responsible for their salaries.
www.bipps.org   (10163 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Season: Kentucky Bluegrass Basketball: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
From the small coal mining towns of eastern Kentucky to the heartland of the bluegrass, this timeless journey winds its way through the sights and sounds of the game that defines Kentucky.
Bluegrass Basketball captures the emotions of players, fans and coaches as expectations of success and hard work weave a common thread through the fabric of high schools across the state.
Experience Kentucky's basketball tradition through the legends and teams that have made a lasting contribution to the culture of the bluegrass state.
www.amazon.com /The-Season-Kentucky-Bluegrass-Basketball/dp/B0006H1D44   (521 words)

  
 Kentucky's State Bluegrass Song: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
In 1928, Monroe left Kentucky with his brothers, Charlie and Birch, to seek employment with an oil refinery in Chicago.
In the years before his death, he was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Honor, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of the Arts.
Bluegrass: From the Lonesome Wail of a Mountain Love Song to the Hammering Drive of the Scruggs-style Banjo: The Story of an American Musical Tradition.
www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/kybgsong.htm   (1486 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass - BlueStar
Areas where other quality Kentucky Bluegrasses are adapted for permanent turf and/or sod production.
Kentucky Bluegrass is a hybrid variety possessing good disease tolerances and a rich green color.
Blue Star can be used as a monostand but performs best in combination with similar Kentucky Bluegrasses, perennial ryegrasses, tall fescues, and fine fescues.
www.bluegrasses.com /info/bluestar.html   (306 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass Chapter of Meeting Professionals of International - KBCMPI
MPI's Kentucky Bluegrass Chapter is a necessary resource for meeting planners and suppliers throughout Kentucky.
Committed to the furtherance of recognition of the meeting planning industry as a true profession, a variety of forums and exchanges are provided to its membership.
NSA Kentucky School for Speakers is sponsoring a one-day public speaking experience for executives, sales and business professionals, and community leaders in the greater Louisville area.
www.kbcmpi.com   (135 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass Guide
When you visit us at the Beaumont Inn, you will be in the middle of Kentucky's famous Bluegrass Region, world famous for its picturesque countryside, numerous historical attractions and special brand of Southern hospitality.
Kentucky's Bluegrass Region offers visitors of all ages the perfect excuse for a weekend excursion or weeklong vacation.
Whether you're interested in horses or history, architecture or outdoor recreation, handmade crafts or handsome antiques, a world of enjoyment awaits you in a magical, one-of-a-kind place.
www.beaumontinn.com /bluegrass.html   (122 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The rolling hills centered at Lexington, Kentucky south of Cincinnati, the oldest settled part of the state, and known for horse breeding, are called the Bluegrass Region.
Kentucky bluegrass can then be planted after the soil is improved by fertilization or growing of legumes.
Bluegrass is also rotated with tobacco to help the soil recover.
www.du.edu /~jcalvert/geol/bluegras.htm   (520 words)

  
 Kentucky Bluegrass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sleek thoroughbreds grazing on manicured horse farms bordered by white plank fences are an iconic image of central Kentucky’s Bluegrass region.
Although the history center, named for Kentucky’s beloved state historian who died in July just short of his 102nd birthday, is filled with state-of-the-art, high-tech exhibits, Jeffries said a great example of preserved history in Frankfort is Liberty Hall, the Georgian-style home of one of Kentucky first two U.S. senators.
The Bluegrass region is home to Berea, officially designated by the state Legislature as the “Arts and Crafts Capital of Kentucky” and located about 40 miles southeast of Lexington.
www.grouptravelleader.com /9_2005/kybluegrass.html   (2242 words)

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