The Economics of the Russian VillageHourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich)
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The Economics of the Russian Village
Hourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich)
Agricultural laborers -- Russia; Land tenure -- Russia; Mir; Peasants; Thesis (Ph. D.)
+------------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| | Planted with wheat. | Fertilized. |
| +------------+---------+------------+----------+
| Estates. | | | |Percentage|
| |Dessiatines.|Per cent.|Dessiatines.| to the |
| | | | |area under|
| | | | | wheat. |
+------------------------+------------+---------+------------+----------+
|With culture of wheat: | | | | |
| a) land not fertilized | 136 | 3 | | |
| b) land fertilized | 4437 | 97 | 2216 | 50 |
|Without culture of wheat| | | 1164 | |
| +------------+---------+------------+----------+
| Total | 4573 | 100 | 3380 | |
+------------------------+------------+---------+------------+----------+
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+------------------------+---------+------------+----------+------------+
| Estates with large | Number. |Dessiatines.| Per cent.| Average |
| agriculture. | | | |Dessiatines.|
+------------------------+---------+------------+----------+------------+
| Without working horses | 48 | 13103 | 12 | 273 |
| With working horses | 142 | 96512 | 88 | 680 |
| |---------+------------+----------+------------+
| Total | 190 | 109615 | 100 | 577 |
+------------------------+---------+------------+----------+------------+
[165] Wherever ploughs are in use, we find from two to three horses to
one plough upon an average; it shows that the horses are raised with
the avowed purpose of driving the plough. Such is the case with most
of the horses found on large estates. Ploughs without horses are kept
only in exceptional cases. Furthermore, we notice that those estates on
which ploughs are used are the largest. The smaller estates are tilled
with the primeval peasant _sohá_, ploughs being only too seldom used by
the peasantry. The figures are found in the following tables:
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