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Open Land Types. 



These types are pretty well described by their names, so that 

 no discussion is necessary, except in one or two instances. 



It is difficult to distinguish between open and brush pasture, 

 as nearly all pasture has some brush growing in it. The 

 directions to the examiners, however, were to include in brush 

 pasture such lands as were so fully grown up with blueberry 

 bushes, hardback, sweet fern, etc., as to be about three-fourths 

 covered with such brush growth. When pasture was stocking 

 with a young growth of gray birch, maple, etc., it was included 

 in the birch and maple, size 4, class, and for this reason the 

 area of brush pasture may seem to be smaller than it should be. 



In small towns it is a difficult matter to separate the area 

 described as business and residential from the purely farming 

 land, and in many very small communities no attempt was 

 made to do so. Business and residential represent the area 

 occupied by the village or urban section of the township. 



Water areas are obtained from the topographical maps, and 

 are not very trustworthy in many cases. The topographical 

 survey was made forty years ago, and since then new dams 

 have been built in brooks and rivers and new areas flooded, 

 while, on the other hand, old dams which existed at that time 

 have broken down and the mill ponds have disappeared. On 

 the whole, we find that there is more water area than these 

 maps show. 



WORCESTER COUNTY. 



Worcester County, the largest in the State, is located in the 

 central part and extends from the New Hampshire line to the 

 Connecticut and Rhode Island lines. The city of Worcester 

 fittingly calls itself the heart of the Commonwealth. Three 

 lines of railroad traverse it from east to west, the Fitchburg 

 Division of the Boston & Maine in the northern part, the 

 Central Massachusetts Division of the Boston & Maine through 

 the central part, and the Boston & Albany in the southern 

 section. These roads are cross connected by several small 

 branch lines of the three main lines mentioned above, so that 

 no part of the county is more than 10 miles from the railroad. 



