OUTLINE OF INTRODUCTION
AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CENSUSES
The importance of America as a leading country of capi-
talism. A model. Ahead of the others. Most freedom, etc.
Agricultural evolution. The significance, importance and
complexity of the question.
American agricultural statistics. Decennial censuses.
Similar material.
Himmer as a collection of bourgeois views. I n t h i s
r e s p e c t his short article is worth volumes.
The gist of his attitude: “family-labour” farms (or farmers)
or capitalist farms. Main propositions. “Decline of Capi-
talism”?
VARIANTS OF PLAN
I
3 main divisions and  s u b d i v i s i o n s.
3 s e c t i o n s and 2 s u b d i v i s i o n s (9 divisions)
Cf. p. 4 of the extracts from the 1 9 0 0 edition: in
1900 there were 5 divisions,* which is more r e a s o n-
a b l e.
Population density.
Per cent of urban population.
Population increase.
* See p. 427.—Ed.
MATERIAL ON THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY
Settlement (homesteads).
Growing number of farms.
Increase in improved area.
Intensiveness of agriculture.
capital
fertilisers.
Hired labour.
Crops (agricultural).
Yields.
Average farm acreage and its changes
by divisions
in time.
Percentage distribution of total value of farms and value
of agricultural implements & machines.
Sale-purchase of feedstuffs and livestock products.
Negroes in the South and their flight to the cities. Immi-
grants and their urge to move to the cities.
Hired labour in agriculture.
Expenditures for wages.
Occupation statistics.
Owners versus tenants
in general
in the South.
Mortgaged farms. Increase.
Number of farms owning horses and changes.
Number of farms (by groups) and changes.
Acreage of improved land (idem) and changes.
Dairy cattle (and its concentration). . . .
Plantations in the South.
Overall picture of industry and agriculture in their class
structure and development.
T h r e e m e t h o d s o f g r o u p i n g. N.B.)
(1900). . . .
Latifundia and decrease in their acreage.
II
The main thing: three s e c t i o n s and
A) 2 divisions of the North (New England & Middle
Atlantic). . . .
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V. I. LENIN
A d d: the prices of industrial products
B) The South—“decline of capitalism”.
C) Summaries of acreage groups.
D) Comparison of three types of groupings.
settlement.
latifundia.
Owners versus tenants.
Overall picture of agriculture and industry.
III
1. I n t r o d u c t i o n. The importance of the question.
Material. “Himmer”.
2. General essay 3(&2) m a i n sections (g e n e r a l
characteristic)
resp. 3-5 §§
(homestead) West
Transition from homestead to
(industrial) North
settled areas
(slave-holding) South
(1 division)
(1 division)
3. Average farm acreage (1850-1910)
4. Acreage groups.
5. I b i d. Percentage distribution of total value and
value of machinery.
6. Groups by income.
7.
” ” principal source of income (“specialities”)
8. Comparison of the 3 groupings.
9. Expropriation of the small farmers.
summaries for the United States
groupings
mortgaged
owners and tenants
farms.
ownership of horses
10. Hired labour in agriculture.
11. Considerable decrease in the acreage of the latifundia.
12. Overall picture.
Further (after 13 §§) roughly:
14. Expropriation of small farmers
P
M
Q
P
M
Q
MATERIAL ON THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY
(α) flight from the countryside
(β) owners
(γ) ownership of horses
(δ) farm debt.
15. Overall picture N.B. &
&cf. America and Russia, i f a l l t h e l a n d
g o e s t o t h e p e a s a n t s.
15. A comparative picture of evolution in industry and
agriculture.
16. S u m m a r y a n d c o n c l u s i o n s.
add to § 3, the North
% of l a r g e e n t e r p r i s e s
add: % of high-income farms
under 3 acres
5.2 N.B.
3 to 10
0.6
10 to 20
0.4
20 to 50
0.3
50 to 100
0.6
& prices of livestock
A d d: Latifundia, % of land
23.6
19.7
& value of land:
7.1%
7.6%
& increase in livestock
meadow & land: p. 6.
VARIANTS OF TITLE
R o u g h l y :
C a p i t a l i s m a n d A g r i c u l t u r e i n t h e
U n i t e d S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a.
(New Data on the Laws Governing the
Development of Capitalism in Agriculture.)
N e w D a t a o n t h e L a w s G o v e r n i n g t h e
D e v e l o p m e n t
o f
C a p i t a l i s m
i n
A g r i-
c u l t u r e.
Part One. Capitalism and Agriculture in the United
States of America.
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