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pete witn houses, especially when the value of the land has gone from $1,200 an acre to $12,000 in many places.”
A special study commission found that “a lack of permanancy” was one of the biggest plights facing New Jersey farmers. In many instances, the farmer faced a hard choice, with no clear answers: Should he make a capital improvement or wait for the real estate man? The result was deteriorating farm communities and a weakening of what was one of the “Garden State’s” major economic resources.
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