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Verbal·Craft and Structure·Words in Context
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The following text is adapted from the 1941 nonfiction book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by James Agee and photographs by Walker Evans. Agee recounts driving a car through an area of rural Alabama that is unfamiliar with.

On which road the woods might give way to any extension of farm country there was no deducing: for we were somewhere toward the middle of one of the wider gaps on the road map, and had seen nothing but woods, and infrequent woods farms, for a good while now.
In the text, what does the word “infrequent” most likely indicate?
A
That long stretches of time presumably intervened between the founding of different farms in the area
B
That the farms give the appearance of neglect, with work having been done on them only intermittently
C
That the farms that Agee passes by in this area aren’t numerous or located close to one another
D
That Agee is frustrated with the progress he is making through the large, wooded area