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(3) The great apparent gain in value of agricultural 

 products in the last decade was largel}^ due both in this 

 division of states and throughout the United States to a 

 far more searching investigation. 



(4) When allowance is made for census duplications 

 of values, it is seen that the earnings of the average Mas- 

 sachusetts farmer's family is less than half the wage 

 received by the workman's family. For the farmer of all 

 the North Atlantic States the situation appears worse 

 than for the Massachusetts farmer. 



