It is suggested that perhaps the reason for tlie smaller size farm in the 

 increasing towns may be due to this factor of working elsewhere part-time. 

 It may also be accounted for, in part, by the increased amount of poultry 

 raising in the increasing towns. It may be possible to have a "larger" and 

 more economic farm on fewer acres raising birds and working part-time off 

 the farm than would be otherwise possible on New Hampshire soil. 



It indicates also a condition mentioned earlier, that the census resi- 

 dence categories are of less value for research purposes in New England 

 than elsewhere because of the fact that they are not mutually exclusive. 

 The rural population in New England, perhaps, should not be classified 

 as rural farm or rural non-farm when on the average one-quarter of their 

 time is spent in non-farm occupations. 



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