B
From David:
p. 109: “The small holder builds at lower cost than the
big one.” He works himself. “This advantage” (sic!)
also applies to the maintenance of buildings.
 p. 115
(from Auhagen): the small farmer bought no cart for 22 years (the big one wears out his in 10-12
years and sells it to the blacksmith) ...
p. 152: On the whole, it is the small farm that prospers
(!) in gardening as in agriculture.”
N.B. cf. statistics
221: “On the small-peasant farm, the cow is the ideal, i.e., the cheapest and most rationally used draught
animal” (!!)
pp. 528-529-532. Sleight-of-hand à la Bulgakov, namely,
that the small farm is more often combined with beet sugar and potato production.
550-551. Denmark ((and the cover))
424:
The small farm has twice as much cattle per ha than the big one. (Cf. Drechsler104.)
Written in March-April 1903
First published in 1938
Printed from the original in Lenin Miscellany XXXI