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specialists of the department. 



The main objectives of the project were: 



(1) To differentiate the agriculture of the State into type-of-f arming areas 

 having similar conditions of soils, crop and livestock systems and farm practices. 



(2) To assemble, coordinate and interpret existing data and judgment of 

 agricultural specialists, in order to determine the nature and extent of desirable 

 adjustments in farming in the different type-of-farming areas within the State 

 from the standpoint of good farm management practice and conservation of 

 agricultural resources. 



(3) To determine the probable change in terms of acreage and volume of 

 crop and livestock production, if the adjustments indicated as desirable were 

 carried out, and to determine their probable effect on farm income. 



In order to present recommendations to the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- 

 ministration in conformity with these objectives the following work was carried 

 out: 



(1 ) Locating and mapping out different types of farms in cooperation with 

 county agricultural agents and agricultural specialists. 



(2) Land classification of the State on the basis of the United States Soil 

 Survey and information obtained from county agents, agronomists, and agri- 

 cultural specialists. 



(3 ) Analysis by type-of-farming areas of farm management records available 

 at the College and those collected in field work during the summer. 



(4) Historical charts and graphs indicating by counties for a period of 50 

 years the trend in production of various crops, number of livestock, and land 

 utilization. 



As a result of the examination of all the assembled material and consulta- 

 tion with college specialists in various lines of agricultural production, recom- 

 mendations were presented last fall to the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- 

 tration as to desirable and anticipated changes in the State in the volume of 

 crop and livestock production and land utilization by type-of-farming areas, 

 in the next five years. 



Since in Massachusetts there is no soil erosion or soil fertility problem of 

 consequence, recommendations made for various adjustments were based pri- 

 marily upon a consideration of sound farm management practices. 



With regard to two major agricultural industries in Massachusetts, dairying 

 and poultry raising, it was anticipated that there would be a moderate increase 

 both in the number of livestock and in the volume of production in the 5-year 

 period ending in 1940. 



While this project is now completed as far as the agreement with the United 

 States Department of Agriculture is concerned, some work on it is still being 

 carried out in completing and refining the material that was collected in the 

 process of investigation. 



Decentralization of Industry and Part-Time Farming in Massa- 

 chusetts. (David Rozman.) The primary objective of this project was to 

 determine the extent to which the location of industrial plants in smaller com- 

 munities in Massachusetts has been productive of a combined use of labor in 

 industry and agriculture. Accordingly a general survey of all industries was 

 made in towns and cities of less than 10,000 population. In two towns, Charl- 

 ton and Winchendon, a study was made of comparative standards of living 

 of workers in part-time farming and those outside of it. The field work has 

 now been extended into several other towns to obtain information on the eco- 

 nomic and social aspects involved in the decentralization of industry. 



