farms on which rebuilding would be justified but on which for one reason 

 or another it is delayed long enough for the place to seriously deteriorate 

 as a farm. 



Less Than Commercial Size Places. Both of the places of less than com- 

 mercial size were small active farms a decade or more ago. In one case the 

 previous farmer's son turned to nonfarm work, probably making the cor- 

 rect economic choice that the small home farm was not his best income al- 



WALPOLE 



Map 6. Idle places, active dairy farms, and dairy opportunity areas in the town of Walpole. 

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



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