Excerpt from Massachusetts Agriculture, 1980 The year 1980 marks the beginning of a new decade, and there are Signs that we may be entering a new era for agriculture in Massachusetts. Both the recent u.s. Census of Agriculture and the farm statistics recorded here show that farms and farmland acreage are holding steady in Massachusetts. The downward slide, a fact of life since World War II, has apparently stopped. We believe Massachusetts agriculture is turning the corner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.