. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . farm land. In Nantucketand Suffolk counties no abandoned farm land is returned. The per-centage of acreage of abandoned farm land of total acreage forthe counties returning abandoned farm land, is highest in Hamp-shire County, reaching therein per cent. It is lowest in EssexCounty, being therein only per cent. While some of the townscontaining abandoned farms show a recent decline in the value ofagricultural products and property, this is not univ
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . farm land. In Nantucketand Suffolk counties no abandoned farm land is returned. The per-centage of acreage of abandoned farm land of total acreage forthe counties returning abandoned farm land, is highest in Hamp-shire County, reaching therein per cent. It is lowest in EssexCounty, being therein only per cent. While some of the townscontaining abandoned farms show a recent decline in the value ofagricultural products and property, this is not universally true andthe decline in certain localities is overbalanced by increase inothers in the same county, so that, notwithstanding the existenceof abandoned farms, each county except Nantucket shows an increase since 1875 in the value of agriculturalproducts, and every county shows an increase in the value of agricultural property. In some counties, also, anincrease in the acreage of land under cultivation appears. Except in Barnstable and Dukes counties, the townsreporting abandoned farms show an aggregate increase in I HE HOME OF ) 24 MASSACHUSETTS OF TO-DAY. The abandonment of farms, in certain localities, is not necessarily an evidence of the decline of agriculture,nor is it confined to New England ; on the contrary, it is going on even in the West. It is one of the features ofthe civilization in which we live. Town life offers far superior attractions ; schools, libraries, water-works, electriclights, sanitation, not to mention those social advantages which inevitably accompany the settlement of people incommunities, are influences which constantly operate against the growth of the farming population. It is notwithin the province of this article to question the wisdom of this movement city-ward. Time and changed condi-tions may bring about a different result. The important fact in the present connection is, that enough farms havebeen aba
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