ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



The Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce, is 

 recognized as the supplier of basic data. Additional information and 

 advice has been received and appreciated from the Department of 

 Economic Analysis and Planning of the New Hampshire Division of 

 Employment Security, the Division of Vital Statistics, the State 

 Department of Health of New Hampshire, and Dr. M. J. Hagood, 

 Chief, Farm Population and Rural Life Branch, Division of Agri- 

 cultural Economics, U.S.D.A. 



Particular acknowledgement is given to Elizabeth Norton, a 

 sociology major at the University of New Hampshire, who has done 

 much of the spade work required in the transposing of pertinent 

 statistical data, and who has been patient and helpful in preparing 

 tables. 



December 1954 



