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For one of the smallest counties in Virginia, Rappahannock certainly seems to be getting its share of national press coverage. An article on the front page of Tuesday’s Washington Post cites a land ownership survey taken here as the model for the first nationwide survey of land ownership in the United States. The study of Rappahannock. begun four years ago by USDA senior economist Gene Wunderlich, found that 53 per cent of the county’s landowners lived elsewhere. It also found that only five per cent of the owners considered farming their primary occupation and that 41 per cent of the land was opened by people with »mh«i incomes of at least $50,000. The owners who reported incomes of $50,000 or more made up only nine per cent of the county’s population. By contrkfti, owners with income under
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