June, 1937] 



Land Utilization in New Hampshire 



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Table 3. Descriptive factors of five groups of farms sorted according to 

 gross sales of agricultural products. 



decade. Such farms may afford reasonable opportunities for a satis- 

 factory content of living. On the other hand, many places can offer 

 only very meager living, and the social cost in maintaining roads and 

 schools will be very great in proportion to the actual service. 



In summary, the agriculture of the area may be briefly described as 

 a pattern of scattered rural residences in a forest area with here and 

 there a small wholesale dairy or poultry farm. Only a few operators 

 depend on agricultural production for their living. 



FORESTRY^ 



Forest resources are of major importance in the future of the area. 

 The occupants of farms are for the most part dependent upon outside 

 work for their living and timber offers the chief possibility of employ- 

 ment in the years to come. 



In order to get more accurate information as to the present status 

 of the timber resources a detailed cover survey of the town of Dor- 

 chester was made" in 1932. Later on, additional work was undertaken 

 in relating the present cover to marketing possibilities.^ 



Four strips were taken across the larger area, and Dorchester seemed 

 a fair sample of the situation. The total volume estimate for the town 

 was 76,815,373 boardfeet. This is an average of 3,010 boardfeet per 

 acre of timberland. (Table 4) 



^ This section is based largely on reports by Carl Walker and C. P. Cronk 

 on the Dorchester Forest Problem. 



^ Mr. Carl Walker, foi'ester, made this cover survey in 1932. Professor 

 K. W. Woodward, Mr. Kenneth Barraclough, and Mr. C. S. Herr, Extension 

 Foresters, supervised certain phases and gave assistance in working out 

 procedure. 



^ A report on utilization of forest products from Dorchester by C. P. 

 Cronk. 



