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tion, they may be taken as constituting a market for that section. 

 These cities are Brockton in northwestern Plymouth, Taunton, 

 Fall River and New Bedford in Bristol, and Woonsocket, Paw- 

 tucket, Central Falls and Providence in the State of Rhode 

 Island. The combined population of these cities in 1905 was 

 500,000, which was nearly as great as that of Boston. 



" This, however, cannot be taken as a true measure of the 

 market for Massachusetts farmers of this section, since the 

 Rhode Island markets get the larger portion of their produce 

 from Rhode Island soil. The Massachusetts cities named above 

 have a population nearly equal to the Rhode Island cities, and, 

 with the exception, perhaps, of Fall River, get all their native 

 food stuffs from Massachusetts farms. Transportation facilities 

 are excellent, no less than thirty lines of railroads entering the 

 cities of the group. Probably most of the garden truck is taken 

 to market over the highways." 



The Faunce Demonstration Farm at Sandwich might serve 

 as a nucleus for a separate agricultural school for the Cape Cod 

 section. The real estate of the Faunce Demonstration Farm, 

 when bequeathed in 1909 for its present use, consisted of two 

 houses, a barn, a greenhouse, about 8 acres of cleared land, with 

 50 acres of woodland adjoining and other woodland at a dis- 

 tance. With this real estate there also -was received a fund of 

 about $20,000. The whole property was left as a memorial to 

 Dr. Robert H. Faunce, who had died suddenly the year before, 

 by his mother, in the hands of four of her personal friends as 

 trustees, with Avide discretionary powers, but with her wish well 

 understood that the estate was to be used to encourage Cape Cod 

 agriculture. Demonstration work in fruit and vegetable grow- 

 ing and in poultry farming has been energetically undertaken. 

 This establishment was described very fully by the " Boston 

 Herald " of Nov. 27, 1910, in an illustrated article, entitled 

 " The Farm without Frills." 



The conditions at Sandwich are so closely typical of the Cape 

 as a whole, and transportation facilities are such, that Sandwich 

 naturally suggests itself as a desirable center for an agricultural 

 school. Agricultural production in that section has been sorely 

 neglected, products which might well be grown at home being 

 brought in for supplying local needs from the Boston markets. 



