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Table 3. — Percentage of Land Suitability by Towns— continued 



Town or 

 City 



Suitability for 

 Agriculture 



Good Me- 

 dium 



Set- 

 tled 



Poor Areas 



Water 



Town or 

 City 



Suitability for 

 Agriculture Set- 



tled Water 



Good Me- 

 dium 



Poor Areas 



Essex County — Cont. 



Manchester. 6.3 

 Marblehead. 10.6 

 Merrimac. . 

 Methuen . . 

 Middleton. 



68.5 

 47.5 

 15.2 



Nahant 5.0 



Newbury. . . 12.0 



Newburyport 5 . 2 

 North 



Andover. . 42.1 



Peabody 28.2 



Rockport... 4.2 



Rowley 10.2 



Salem 3.2 



Salisbury ... 6.3 



Saugus 12 .3 



Swampscott 5.5 



Topsfield. . . 37.2 



Wenham ... 39.9 

 West 



Newbury 61.2 



8.2 



3.8 



13.2 



29.7 



38.8 



0.0 



5.8 



31.7 



63.5 

 34.0 

 8.8 

 12.8 

 37,5 



21.9 

 79.3 

 38.8 



22.0 



51.1 



5.5 



7.2 

 7.2 



71.5 



1.4 



17.5 



28.8 21.0 3.8 



26.8 

 2.7 



31.6 

 1.7 



37.8 



1.9 



.3 



31.8 



13.5 



34.3 

 82.4 

 57.8 

 60.0 

 47.4 



44.9 

 17.5 

 28.7 

 37.0 



8.6 



9.9 



.3 



32.8 



6.1 



32.2 



76.1 



1.9 



4.1 



Franklin County 



Ashfield 35.9 



Bernardston 21.5 



Buckland... 10.7 



Charlemont. 20.7 



Colrain 15.3 



Conway. ... 15 .9 



Deerfield... 47.7 



Erving 8.2 



Gill 50.4 



Greenfield .. 58.9 



Hawley 24.4 



Heath 44.4 



Leverett 11.2 



Leyden 34.4 



Monroe 10.2 



Montague . . 

 New Salem , 

 Northfield , 



Orange 



Rowe 



Shelburne . . . 

 Shutesbury , 

 Sunderland . 



Warwick 



Wendell..., 

 Whately 



17.5 

 7.8 



15.5 

 4.9 



32.2 



20.8 

 3.5 



28.6 

 5.9 

 5.6 



46.5 



28.2 

 59.3 

 43.6 

 29.4 

 47.0 



43.9 

 22.9 

 13.5 

 34.5 

 15.5 



16.6 

 29.5 



48.5 

 36.7 

 38.3 



36.2 

 11.2 

 16.7 

 38.9 

 11.9 



36.4 

 66.1 

 35.2 

 42.2 

 53.4 

 36.5 



35.4 

 18.2 

 44.3 

 47.7 

 37.0 



39.4 

 23.4 

 76.2 

 8.9 

 11.8 



58.7 

 25.9 

 39.9 



27.8 

 50.8 



38.6 

 60.3 

 63.3 

 49.2 

 54.7 



40.9 

 29.1 

 33.1 

 50.3 

 40.1 

 15.2 



.6 



3.0 



.7 



.2 



12.1 



.2 

 .1 

 .3 

 .4 

 .3 



4.5 



.1 



1.5 



4.8 



.1 



Hampden County 



Agawam 59.3 



Blandford .. 19.4 

 Brirnfield. . . 18.0 



Chester 16.2 



Chicopee ... 16.7 

 East Long- 

 meadow . . 65 . 7 



17.1 

 24.0 

 41.5 

 19.7 

 44.7 



13.0 

 52.6 

 39.7 

 62.6 

 8.7 



6.6 



.5 



.4 



.6 



25.2 



0.0 



.5 

 4.0 

 2.8 

 1.3 



1.6 

 1.5 

 6.8 



4.3 



2.1 



.8 



.1 



2.3 



2.4 



8.7 

 .6 

 .4 



5.5 



9.7 22.1 1.8 5.2 



The County 26 . 7 22.4 37.1 10.8 3.0 



.4 .1 



.8 .2 



.4 1.0 



.4 1.8 



.2 .5 



.2 

 3.0 

 1.4 

 6.0 

 1.7 



.1 

 .1 

 .1 



.7 

 .4 



3.2 

 20.6 

 3.0 

 2.2 

 1.1 



1.1 

 1.0 



2.8 



1.2 



.8 



1.7 



The County 21.3 33.7 40.8 1.3 2.9 



4.1 



3.5 



.4 



.9 



4.7 



4.5 18.8 10.9 



Hampden County — Cont. 



Granville... 13.9 17.3 66.6 .5 



Hampden... 24.6 17.5 57.1 .6 



Holland 16.4 48.3 30.1 .7 



Holyoke 16.1 6.8 51.5 18.2 



Longmeadow 21.5 36.1 19.9 16.3 



Ludlow 28.9 14.9 47.6 3.9 



Monson.... 16.5 23.5 57.6 2.1 



Montgomery 8.1 20.3 70.1 .1 



Palmer 17.1 23.3 52.8 4.6 



Russell 6.2 18.9 71.3 1.0 



Southwick.. 48.8 12.9 35.2 1.1 



Springfield.. 10.5 38.2 6.8 40.3 



Tolland 9.0 20.1 68.1 .1 



Wales 14.9 48.4 33.2 2.2 



Westfield. . . 48.0 25.0 13.1 12.5 



West Spring- 

 field 39.2 18.0 17.8 20.5 



Wilbraham . 34.2 28.5 34.0 2.0 



1.7 



.2 

 4.5 

 7.4 

 6.2 



4.7 



.3 



1.4 



2.2 

 2.6 



2.0 



4.2 

 2.7 

 1.3 

 1.4 



4.5 

 1.3 



The County 24.2 24.2 42.2 6.9 2.5 



Hampshire County 



Amherst 38.7 29.8 24.4 



Belchertown 32.1 20.8 42.6 



Chesterfield. 21.7 27.1 50.1 



Cummington 27.2 31.0 41.1 



Easthampton45.5 21.2 20.5 



Goshen 20.3 43.5 33.4 



Granby 23.5 21.9 53.6 



Hadley 57.7 9.2 24.7 



Hatfield 39.4 21.1 33.9 



Huntington. 17.3 19.7 60.0 



Middlefield .26.6 0.0 72.8 



North- 

 ampton... 32.5 30.4 26.1 



Pelham 16.2 0.0 76.3 



Plainfield... 31.1 21.9 46.5 



South 



Hadley... 28.1 27.6 36.5 



Southampton 26 . 27.7 44.1 



Ware 13.5 33.8 28.9 



West- 



hampton . 12.3 15.4 70.9 



Williamsburg 15.8 42.3 39.5 



Worthington 37.6 17.7 44.4 



The County 27.6 23.1 43.8 2.2 3.S 



Middlesex County 



Acton 19.8 49.0 24.8 



Arlington... 5.1 18.0 7.7 



Ashby 24.9 26.8 46.2 



Ashland 14.0 42.7 38.1 



Ayer 8.0 42.9 37.0 



Bedford 36.6 18.7 39.7 



Belmont 8.2 14.4 7.9 



Billerica 28.2 40.6 21.5 



Boxborough. 27.9 39.7 32.3 



Burlington.. 11.3 47.2 35.5 



Cambridge.. 7.2 0.0 9.5 



Carlisle 11.3 49.5 37.8 



