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Show AGRICULTURE IN NEW ENGLAND Popular IWllef That Farm Land tn East Is Deserted Waste Is Fallrtcv Larga Area of Woodland. The popular belief that New England Eng-land farm land is a deserted waste Is untruo, as the much talked-of abandoned aban-doned farms that are commonly pictured pic-tured aa lying Idle with bare fields growing up to weedi, are not to be found. Nature baa been remarkably quick to start reforestation. In traveling through the New Kngland states one cannot fall to note the latv;e area of woodland as compared to the Improved farm land, and the census figures of lh99 show that only 29 per cent, of New Hampshire Is Improved Im-proved land, which means that the other 71 per cent. Is practically alt In forest. dairying and general farming are not so profitable In this region as either fruit or poultry, as tbe farms are too small to yield sntlFfactorlly under those systems. Fruit growing and poultry farming In combination would seem to be a very satlxfactory 1 solution to many of the smaller hill farmers, especially If Inter egg production pro-duction Is made the obJ-ct of the poultry side of the work. The most successful farmers are not as a rule following methods of farm practice different from those not O successful, but are utilizing; their laud and equipment to better advantage; advan-tage; making greater profits, not by pending less but by taking In more. I 1 |