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Around 1850 there were about 800 farms in Otsego County. By the 1950's the number of farms had dropped to around 400. By 1988 there were only 81 farms in operation. Therefore, the amount of land in the county that is devoted to farming has dropped by about 90 percent in the past 140 years.
Question List: 1
A major flaw in the argument above is that it
- A counts the number of farms only approximately
- B fails to say whether the use now being made of the land previously devoted to farming is income-producing
- C ignores the possibility that the average size of farms has changed
- D gives data for only 3 of the past 140 years
- E does not take into account the type of product or crop each farm yields