20 BULLETIN 140, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
tended westward to include the excellent town of Hardwick, to which 
reference has already been made. Yet even this locality has been im- 
proved and reasonably developed only in spots. From much more 
of the land is the production of crops and other farm products 
destined to be greatly increased and conditions are already ripe for 
the undertaking. Similar conditions obtain in the Pomfret-Wood- 
stock section in northeastern Connecticut. 
Good glacial loams, both medium and very heavy, produce good 
yields of corn and grass, the former being preferable for corn and 
the latter for grass. Both crops brought heavy yields in 1911, not- 
withstanding the droughty conditions that prevailed during much of 
the growing season. The medium and light loams are well adapted 
to orcharding, thrifty orchards here and there attesting to this fact, 
but they likewise are bringing good yields of forage for the produc- 
tion of market milk. Directly west from New Braintree, Mass., and 
toward Enfield the soils are more sandy, as they are to the south- 
ward in Hampden County east of a line connecting Three Rivers 
and the town of Hampden. These lighter soils also extend farther 
south into northern Tolland County, Conn., but in the southern half' 
of that county the percentage of loamy areas increases somewhat. 
Prescott, Mass., may be taken to represent one of the more unde- 
veloped towns of eastern Hampshire County. Though hilly, this 
town has a sufficient area of soils that are capable of bringing good 
crops to warrant a much higher degree of farm improvement. 
In northwestern Worcester, in the eastern parts of Franklin and 
Hampshire, in the southwest corner of Worcester, and in the south- 
eastern part of Hampden County, Mass., and in northern Tolland 
County, Conn., the percentage of improved land is much less than in 
central Worcester County. Conditions differ somewhat, but the pro- 
duction of farm products is much lower than it should be. The ele- 
vation is high, the region is hilly, there is a considerable percentage 
of sandy and stony soils, distance from shipping points is relatively 
great, transportation over the existing highways is expensive, and 
hence large areas are in forest. Yet notwithstanding these adverse 
conditions, which are found in greater or lesser degree in most of the 
Eastern States, there are sufficient areas of good soils so located that 
they are easily capable of supporting a prosperous agriculture. 
From the crest of the Eastern Highland to the Connecticut Valley 
there is a general slope, but its surface has been so dissected as to 
leave little semblance to anything plainlike. On the contrary, bold 
hills approximating 1,000 feet in elevation extend nearly to the 
Connecticut River, in the northern part of the State, near the Ver- 
mont line in east Xorthfield, and thence southward these high hills 
extend through the towns of Erving, Montague, Leverett, Pelham, 
