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Map. 3 Idle places, active dairy farms, and dairy opportunity areas in the town of Hopkinton. 

 Dairy opportunity areas are numbered from 1, the best, to 7, the poorest. 



We shall see that these generalizations are to a considerable extent appli- 

 cable to the other towns studied. 



B. Hopkinton — Central Upland Town, Partly Agricultural 



Description of the Area. The Town of Hopkinton is located in southern 

 Merrimack County just west of the City of Concord. New Hampshire Cir- 

 cular 53 and Bulletin 340, referred to earlier, show Hopkinton as one of the 

 agriculturally better central upland towns. New Hampshire Circular 53 

 classified the type of farming in 1935 as wholesale milk, apples, and hens. 



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