+--------------------------+---------------------+---------+ | | | In the | | | In the class. |district | | Stopped working | |at large.| | on their plots. +-----------+---------+---------+ | |Households.|Per cent.|Per cent.| +--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------+ |Horseless | 2471 | 90 | 13 | |With 1 horse | 256 | 9} 10 | 32} 87 | |With 2 horses or more | 33 | 1} | 55} | | +-----------+---------+---------+ | Total | 2760 | 100 | 100 | +--------------------------+-----------+---------+---------+ The class almost coincides on the whole with the so-called “horseless:” “_Horseless._” _Households._ _Per cent._ Traders 68 3 } 8 Tilling their plots 143 5 } Stopped tilling their plots 2471 92 ---- ---- Total 2682 100 The 10 per cent. who stopped tilling their plots, though owning 1 horse or more, as well as the 8 per cent. who manage to till their plots without working horses, make (each of these sections) only about 1 per cent. of the peasantry of the district. Thus, in identifying the proletarians with the “horseless,” the error is of the kind to be neglected, to use the mathematical term. [122] +--------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+ | | Stopped | | In the | | | tilling | “Horse- |district | | Households. | their | less.” |at large.| | | plots. | | | | +---------+---------+---------+ | |Per cent.|Per cent.|Per cent.| +--------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+ |Landless | 11 } 48| 11 } 48| 2 } 16| |Owning less than 5 dessiatines | 37 } | 37 } | 14 } | |Owning from 5 to 15 dessiatines | 42 | 43 | 50 | |Owning from 15 to 25 dessiatines| 9 } 10| 8 } 9 | 25 } 34| |Owning above 25 dessiatines | 1 } | 1 } | 9 } | | +---------+---------+---------+ | Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | | | | | | |Average plot: | | | | | To 1 household, dessiatines | | 7.2 | 14.4 | | To 1 adult male worker, ” | | 7.9 | 8.3 | +--------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+ [123]