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Table 2. — Meaxs of transportation used by operators. 



Holden Lowell Area Taunton Area 



Number Per cenl Number Per cent Number Per cent 



Automobile 322 



Electric car 16 



Walking 39 



Bus 48 



Horse 1 



Train 



Bicycle 



Total 426* 100.0 115 100.0 84 100.0 



*The total does not include the retired people and those who had no regular place of work. 

 Table 3. — Nationality of part-time farmers. 



Nationality Holden Lowell Area Taunton Area 



Number Per cent Number Per cent Number Per cent 



American 378 



Swedish 82 



Polish and Lithuanian 



Portuguese 



Finnish 15 



French Canadian 



Italian 



Others 44 



Total 519 100.0 115 



Extent of Part-Time Farming 



From tlie survey of 820 houses in Holden, it was found tliat .585 families 

 living in tlie same number of dwellings were engaged in some farming on 

 their landholdings. As shown in Chart 2, only 66 or a little over 11 per 

 cent were bona fide farmers. The rest devoted only part of their time 

 to farming, getting additional income from outside employment or some 

 other source. 



Inasmuch as part-time farming enterprises are operated mostly on a 

 small scale, only a portion of them comes up in size or agricultural output 

 to the minimum accepted in the definition of a farm by the United States 

 Census. It will be noticed, furthermore, that the number of farmers 

 listed by the United States Census of 192.5 is smaller than the number 

 coming within the census qualifications. Part of this discrepancy is 

 probably due to changes in the agricultural structure of the town during 

 tiic intervening five-year period. Another reason is probably the inherent 

 difficulty of taking a complete count of small-scale enterprises in a census 

 dealing primarily with regular farming enterprises. 



The inclusion of all farming and part-time farming enterprises in the 

 present survey resulted also in obtaining for the town a much larger area 

 in farming than was recorded by the census, the figures being 10,.562 

 acres and 7,454 acres, respectively. 



