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Cod, and in some of the hill towns is not in farms. Public parks, forest 

 reservations, numicipal water reservoirs, and other public lands cover a con- 

 sideralile area in addition to tiiat wliioh is merely waste. 



Figure 5. Percentage of Farm Land Plowable. 



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The character of the land in farms is indicated in Figure .5, whicli sliows 

 the percentage of plowable^ land. The lowest percentage is found in the 

 Berkshire Hills and in the rough land of northern Worcester County. The 

 Connecticut Valley as compared with other areas having a high proportion 

 of land in farms has more plowal)le land than any other part of the state. 



Figure 6. Farm Land in Pasture per Acre of Plowable Land. 



1" ] Un der 1 acrc^ 

 t;:il^^ Over 1 acre 





The areas which have a low jiercentage of jilowable land have the liigliest 

 ])ercentage of pasture. (See Figure 6.) This is not always an indication 



' Plowable land is crop land plus plowable pasture. Plowable pasture, as the term 

 is used in the 1925 Census, comprises "land used only for pasture in 1924 which 

 could be plowed and used for crops without clearing, draining or irrigating." 



