Soil Conservation Service 



The Woodland-Recreation area, typified by this ski area at Gilford, is lo- 

 cated in central and northern ]New Hampshire on mountainous and stony soils. 



Types of Farms by Regions 



Table 6, compiled from the 1955 Census of Agriculture, shows the num- 

 ber of farms of each type by counties in the three regions in the State. 

 These regions are: the Connecticut Valley Area, comprising Coos, Grafton, 

 Sullivan, and Cheshire Counties; the Southeast Area, including Merrimack, 

 Hillsborough. Rockingham, and Strafford Counties; and the East Central 

 Area, with Belknap and Carroll Counties. 



In all of the State's 10,413 farms, nearly 43 percent are classified as 

 miscellaneous. Next in order are farms classified as dairy, poultry, general, 

 livestock, fruit, vegetable, and field crop. 



Excluding miscellaneous farms, dairy farming predominates in the 

 Connecticut Valley Area. However, in three of the four counties in the 

 Southeast Area, poultry farms outnumber other types of farms. In the East 

 Central Area, one county contains more dairy farms than poultry farms 

 and in the other county the converse is true. 



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