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PRESENT USES OF LAND 



Uses of land in the town of Fremont were studied to g'ive basic 

 data for land utilization problems. 



Fremont has never been primarily a farming- town. It has a few 

 larg^e farms, but the backbone of the town is in its wood-using indus- 

 try. Sixty-four percent of the town is wooded, and has furnished 

 material not only for Spaulding and Frost's cooperage mill, but for 

 other industries in the neighboring towns. Fellows (lo.'s wood heel 

 and box factory and the brickyards of Epping are examples. 



TABLE 2. Summary of types of land in Town of Fremont. 



There are several commercial poultry plants in town, but as these 

 take up comparative!}' little land they are not important in a land 

 survey. 



There is a distinct tendency for the cutover lands to come in to 

 hardwoods rather than to regenerate to pine. At present nearly 

 three quarters of the woodlands are hardwood, and 11 ])ercent recent 

 cutover. Onl)' 16 percent is pine. Forty percent of the pine lands 

 are merchantable, and 70 percent would produce some boxboards. 

 The pine is allowed to grow older before cutting than is the case in a 

 g-ood many towns, which means that the cut is of better average 

 quality. 



There is quite evidently a deficiency in young and growing pine. 

 The uplands are excellent pine lands, but hardwoods, topping the 

 seedlings at the start, crowd them out. While pine has been over- 

 emphasized, Fremont is placed in an unusually favorable position by 

 the dependable market offered by local industries. 



