154 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. 



setts, in 1916; Hampshire County had 161 and Franklin County 143, 

 having from 2 to 5 acres, making a total of 381 farms. The next m,ost 

 common acreage is from 5 to 8 acres. Hampden County had 41 farms, 

 Hampshire County 132 farms, and Franklin County 65 farms reporting 

 this acreage, with a total for the three counties of 238 farms. There were 

 163 farms in the three counties that reported from 8 to 11 acres, 80 that 

 reported from 11 to 15 acres, 65 that reported from 15 to 20 acres, 80 that 

 reported 20 or more acres, and 53 farms that reported under 2 acres. The 

 mode, then, is between 2 and 5 acres, but the average per farm in the three 

 counties is 8.4 acres, distributed as follows: Franklin County, 7 acres; 

 Hampshire County, 8.6 acres; and Hampden County, 11 acres. 



fSrms 



400 



3S0 



300 



Under 2 



15-20 Ow 20 



Fig. 1. — Number of farmers with specified acreages of tobacco. Note that of the 1,060 

 farms depicted, nearly 60 per cent have between 2 and 8 acres per farm, and approxi- 

 mately 40 per cent have each 5 acres or less. 



