. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. 114 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 266 Table 6.—Distribution of land values in farming and part-time faujiing. FARMING Value per acre Acres Number Per cent Average Total price value per acre PART-TIME FARMING Acres Average Total price Number Per cent value per acre Below $25 243 $25— 49 50— 74 757 75— 99 248 100— 299 267 300 or over 24 Total 4,454 $4,400 $1S 654 108,100 37 45,500 60 20,200 SI 35,900 134 .5 16,200 675 230,300 52 932 $16,350 $18 105,650 34 1,0
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. 114 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 266 Table 6.—Distribution of land values in farming and part-time faujiing. FARMING Value per acre Acres Number Per cent Average Total price value per acre PART-TIME FARMING Acres Average Total price Number Per cent value per acre Below $25 243 $25— 49 50— 74 757 75— 99 248 100— 299 267 300 or over 24 Total 4,454 $4,400 $1S 654 108,100 37 45,500 60 20,200 SI 35,900 134 .5 16,200 675 230,300 52 932 $16,350 $18 105,650 34 1,027 62,500 61 317 5.'> 26,150 83 382 66,795 175 384 319,825 833 6,109 597,270 98 land in regular farming. In fact, there were found in part-time fanning considerable areas of low-priced, inferior land which had been abandoned by regular agriculture. This is well demonstrated by the fact that, while only per cent of the total area in farming was valued at less than $25 per acre, in part-time farming this low-priced land represented per cent of the total area. (Chart 5.) As compared with regular farming, therefore, part-time farming tended to develop eitlier on land which was important for residential purposes or on the poorer grades of agri- cultural land. Chart 5. Percentage of Land of Different Values Held In Fanning and Part-Time Farming in the Town of FA RM IN G PART-TIME FARMING Size of Landholdings in Part-Time Farming The size of landholdings of part-time farnu-rs in the town of Holden showed a wide variation, beginning with small lots not larger than a fraction of an acre, and ending witii tracts of 100 acres or more. As shown in Table 7, over one-third of the total' number of enterprises in Holden were less than one acre in .size. Nearly another third was repre- sented by landholdings varying in size from one to three acres. In adHi- tion to raising vegetables, the operators on some of these enterprises. Please note that
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