The Effects of Industrialization on Farm Income Distribution and Farm Numbers in New England
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Affected by industrialization, aqriculture
in New England adapts to economic changes. Farms
have become either large commercial units or
small part time farms. Distributions of farm
income have changed from an inverted-J distribution
to a u-shaped distribution in the past three
decades. Farm income grows slower and shows a
larger dispersion in urban counties than in rural
counties. Analyses of census data support the
hypotheses (1) that farm income is loqnormally
distributed and (2) that industrialization has a
complementary effect on agriculture while growth
of urbanization essentially reduces farm numbers
mostly in middle income classes.