The Economics of the Russian Village

Name: The Economics of the Russian Village
Author: Hourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich)

Hourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich)

Agricultural laborers -- Russia; Land tenure -- Russia; Mir; Peasants; Thesis (Ph. D.)

+----------------------+--------+--------+------------------------------+
  |                      |        |        |    Area under cultivation.   |
  |    Estates with      |        |        +---------------------+--------+
  |       large          |        |        |     Dessiatines.    | Once in|
  |    agriculture.      | Number |Average +------+-----+--------+how many|
  |                      |   of   |(dessia-|      | Per | Yearly | years  |
  |                      |estates.| tines).|Total.|cent.|manured.|manured?|
  +----------------------+--------+--------+------+-----+--------+--------+
  |  _Property of the    |        |        |      | 100 |        |        |
  |   nobility_:         |        |        |      +-----+        |        |
  |Farming with manure   |  104   |   816  | 28495|  92 |  2555  |  11.1  |
  |Farming without manure|   19   |   280  |  2415|   8 |        |        |
  |                      |        |        |      |     |        |        |
  |  _Property of the    |        |        |      | 100 |        |        |
  |   capitalist class_: |        |        |      +-----+        |        |
  |Farming with manure   |   45   |   363  |  5314|  85 |   825  |   6.4  |
  |Farming without manure|   22   |   138  |   958|  15 |        |        |
  +----------------------+--------+--------+------+-----+--------+--------+

The expense of fertilizing is compensated by the greater productivity
of capitalistic agriculture.

We observe that wheat is planted by the capitalist where rye would be
the only winter crop raised by a nobleman:

                                                   _Average
  _Estates with large agriculture._   _Number._  (Dessiatines)._
  _Property of the nobility_:
    Wheat grown                          72            898
    No wheat grown                       51            501
  _Property of the capitalist class_:
    Wheat grown                          22            478
    No wheat grown                       45            197

Of much greater consequence is, moreover, the fact that the yields of
wheat are by far higher on capitalistic farms than on the estates of
the nobility[170]:

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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.)

+----------------------+--------+--------+------------------------------+
  |                      |        |        |    Area under cultivation.   |
  |    Estates with      |        |        +---------------------+--------+
  |       large          |        |        |     Dessiatines.    | Once in|
  |    agriculture.      | Number |Average +------+-----+--------+how many|
  |                      |   of   |(dessia-|      | Per | Yearly | years  |
  |                      |estates.| tines).|Total.|cent.|manured.|manured?|
  +----------------------+--------+--------+------+-----+--------+--------+
  |  _Property of the    |        |        |      | 100 |        |        |
  |   nobility_:         |        |        |      +-----+        |        |
  |Farming with manure   |  104   |   816  | 28495|  92 |  2555  |  11.1  |
  |Farming without manure|   19   |   280  |  2415|   8 |        |        |
  |                      |        |        |      |     |        |        |
  |  _Property of the    |        |        |      | 100 |        |        |
  |   capitalist class_: |        |        |      +-----+        |        |
  |Farming with manure   |   45   |   363  |  5314|  85 |   825  |   6.4  |
  |Farming without manure|   22   |   138  |   958|  15 |        |        |
  +----------------------+--------+--------+------+-----+--------+--------+

The expense of fertilizing is compensated by the greater productivity
of capitalistic agriculture.

We observe that wheat is planted by the capitalist where rye would be
the only winter crop raised by a nobleman:

                                                   _Average
  _Estates with large agriculture._   _Number._  (Dessiatines)._
  _Property of the nobility_:
    Wheat grown                          72            898
    No wheat grown                       51            501
  _Property of the capitalist class_:
    Wheat grown                          22            478
    No wheat grown                       45            197

Of much greater consequence is, moreover, the fact that the yields of
wheat are by far higher on capitalistic farms than on the estates of
the nobility[170]:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Economics of the Russian Village

The Economics of the Russian Village

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