Show fAR FARMING NG PAYS IN Ifs BAY STATE Growers Grower's Condition Seems None Too Favorable However BOSTON April The 23 23 The The indi individual vidual fanner farmer in Massachusetts Is comparatively better beUer oft off than the t of ot tho the west but his condition docs does not comparo compare any too favorably with mill the Industrial worker of the flay Day stAte te accord accord- ins In to toI a I by the state depart depatt- mc mont ment nt of agriculture The TIle crop value salue ot or each rach acre aCTe of Improved land in the tho United States In 1922 averaged a little under 17 In Massachusetts s achu etts the average was about 19 Although It costs mOre moreen nn en acre to grow crops In Massa MasUl Massachusetts Massachusetts than In some me other states slates the net Income an acre IE greatly In eel excess q of that in such agricultural agricultural agricultural tural states slates as Kansas Wisconsin and 10 Iowa Iona a according dinG to the report M vf NY r Y i NY PIE PH rID ti Massachusetts with acres of or Improved land produced crops worth more than 44 last scar car taking the lead among the 11 he New J England states stales Maine and ermont o mont each has hns about t tIce Ice as much Improved land as Massa Massa- Massachusetts Massachusetts but Milnes Milne's If lInes lIne's crops In 1922 a averaged under 20 per acre and Vermont's 21 Vermont stood crop value alue In New En- En land land with Ith the other states In the following order Maine Malno Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut cut New Hampshire and Rhode Island the In- In In Individual These figures mean that dh farmer Is doing rather better in Massachusetts thin than Ir in inmost Inmost most other parts p of the country the report says but hut It does not men n that his condition compares ant In too favorably fa with the worker w In the factory and the mill who has hns a larger gro gross income without any iny of the tho risks or an anxieties of the person who has several thou thou- thousand thousand thousand sand dollars In in a 0 rather uncertain business bustnes There are arc so many things belond be ond the contro s of f f the thc crop grower that plan a as he be may there ire always surprises es n nit 1 more of them are arc against as than In favor of ot a 0 large e harvest IJ L CROPS CRAPS There Is yet to be bo developed a MIlS Massachusetts general farming th t will prove attractive to the man ho aho Is not forced by health ne- ne necessity ne necessity or Impelled by Jy large love for the op open n to toll follow ow this cluing As is well known there thero are special special- specialized lines of agriculture such as market garden gardening cranberry cul- cul culture cul culture tur ture tobacco and onion growing and possibly apple that are arp proving attractive etive aa lIB remunerative athe business enterprises Much or of the high value an acre or of o Massa- Massa Massa crops Is la due to these specialists sp- sp but food staples ire are not as yet profitably specialized In f |