. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. TYPE-OF-FARMING AREAS IN MASS. 263 eration of the maps on tlie following pages shows the degree to which the various enterprises are correhited witli one another and with the natural and economic factors affecting their distril)ution. Figure 9. Dairy Cows on Farms, January 1, 1925. MASSACHUSCTTi 1 dot = 50 covrs <2^. Dairi/iii<f. Dairying is the most inijiortant single source of farm income in Massa- chusetts. Figure 9 indicates the wide distribution of dairy cows. Compari- son with the topographic
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. TYPE-OF-FARMING AREAS IN MASS. 263 eration of the maps on tlie following pages shows the degree to which the various enterprises are correhited witli one another and with the natural and economic factors affecting their distril)ution. Figure 9. Dairy Cows on Farms, January 1, 1925. MASSACHUSCTTi 1 dot = 50 covrs <2^. Dairi/iii<f. Dairying is the most inijiortant single source of farm income in Massa- chusetts. Figure 9 indicates the wide distribution of dairy cows. Compari- son with the topographic map shows that the areas more sjiarsely populated with cows correspond with the rough land in the Berkshires and in the North Central Upland. The Cape region likewise has a small number of cows. Many factors have combined to bring about tliis wide distrll)ution of dairy cows as well as their lack of concentration in certain areas. The primary ones are probably physical or natural, although economic factors such as proximity to markets are also very significant. The distribution of the chief feed crops and of feed purchased is shown in Figure 10. Most dairymen, excejit in some places in the eastern end of the state, grow enough roughage to supply their cows, and so the distribu- tion of hay and corn closely follows that of dairy cows. In the case of corn, production falls off rather more sharply in sections at higher elevation than does hay production, as might be expected. Considerably more feed is pur- chased in the eastern part of the state than in the western. This is partly because cows are fed more heavily of concentrates in that part of the state, and partly because purchased feed also includes poultry feed, of which there is a greater quantity purchased in eastern Massachusetts. Poultry. Poultry and egg production have been increasingly important in recent years. Figure 11 shows the distribution of poultry on farms on January 1, There is more poultry in the easter
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