ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE BOOK,
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF FRANCE.
GENERAL RESULTS
OF THE 189ù DECENNIAL INQUIRY 89
Part I
Pp.
80. Wheat crops (Nord—most of all)
87. Oat crops (idem)
90. Reduction in the area under cereals 1862- 1882-
1892
100. Growth of gross output of cereals 1834-1865-1885-
1895
105. Especially great growth in 1882-1892 (!)
106. Reason: fertilisers, etc.
108. Wheat crops from 1815 to 1895 {Hertz, p. 50}
113. Wheat production (total) from 1831 to 1891 (&&)
especially averages for decades
115. Growth in consumption of wheat per head (and for
industrial purposes N.B.)
137. Reduction in the raising of beans, etc.
143. Increase in the raising of potatoes et al., and
higher yields (p. 144)
158. Growth in the production of feed in 1862-1882-1892
1862
1882
1892 artificial meadows
2.8
3.1
3.0 mill. ha natural meadows
5.0
5.9
6.2
”
”
161. N.B. percentage growth of meadows from 1862 (N.B.)
163. Sugar plants prevail among the industrial crops
(52.14%)
164. —Nord leading.
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180. Sugar-beet: especially Nord
183. Growth in sugar production from 1887 to 1897.
198. Vegetable gardens mostly near big towns (N.B.).
203. Vegetable gardens decline from 1882.
206. Fallow declines.
242. Comparison with 1840 of all types of crops.
257. Nord is especially rich in livestock.
340. Consumption of meat.
Wheat hl hl per 100 ha output per total farm- hl ha land
1. Nord
. . . . . .

3,144,749
25.5
2. Pas-de-Calais . . .

3,205,744
20.2
3. Somme
. . . . .

2,778,499
21.2
4. Ardennes . . . . .

1,498,899
21.4
5. Oise. . . . . . .

2,455,795
22.8
6. Aisne . . . . . .

3,412,329
23.9
7. Seine-et-Oise . . .

2,167,158
23.9
8. Seine . . . . . .

103,379
26.8
9. Eure-et-Loire . . .

2,579,191
21.5
10. Seine-et-Marne
. .

2,570,100
22.5

Average for

Σ=117,499,297
16.4
 France in the whole of France
France. 189:
(Pp. 356-59)
Area
% of
Average not farms size cultivated culti- total of farms
vated
Under 1 ha
39.19
0.59
2.88
1.35
2.67
1-10 ”
45.90
4.28
24.07
13.83
22.80
10-40 ”
12.48
14.91
20.13
30.00
73.05
21.96
28.98
74.53
40 and > ”
2.43
162.21
43.05
62.86
45.55
Σ=100


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Distribution of Cultivated Area
Woods
Ploughland
Mead-
Vineyards
Vegetables and ows gardens forests
Under 1 ha
2.78
3.20
7.56
16.26
1.18
1-10 ”
25.71
29.27
35.42
34.48
11.96
10-40 ”
32.33
71.51
36.43
25.98
57.02
25.99
49.26
18.94
40 and > ”
39.18
31.10
31.04
23.27
67.92
Σ=100


Number of farms (part 2, pp. 221-25)
Under 1
1-10
10-40
40 and >
1862
?
2,435,401
636,309
154,167
1882
2,167,667
2,635,030
727,222
142,088
1892
2,235,405
2,617,558
711,118
138,671
Agricultural Machinery (part 2, pp, 256-59)
Steam machines
Horse- and
Ploughs*)
drawn
Thres-
Seeders Mowers
Har-
Tedders
Total traction hoes hers vesters engines
1862
2,849
3,206,421
25,846
100,733
10,853
9,442
8,907
5,649 3,867,851
1882
9,288
3,267,187
195,410
211,045
29,391
19,147
16,025 27,364 3,765,569
1892 12,037
3,669,212
251,798
234,380
52,375
38,753
23,432
51,451 4,321,401
Souchon (p. 94) should not be too happy about the num- ber of machines having shown a moderate growth. If
ploughs are not included in the “machines”, the growth turns out to be rather strong. (p. 195).
(p. 195)
(part 2, p. 201)
Quantity of milk
Growth of production
Cheese and Butter
Total
2000 kg
2000 kg
Milch per mill.
cows cow hl
1882
114,696
74,851
5,019,670

68.206
1892
136,654
132,023
5,407,126

77.013
*) double and
1862—?
multi-share
1882—157,719
1892—198,506
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Vineyards
Part II, p. 89: from 1882, the number of ha has de- clined, but the number of hl of wine per ha increased from
15.28 to 16.12
Beet (sugar) (part 2, p. 63)
ha
quintals per ha
1862
136,492

1882
240,465

1892
271,258

Number of farms: (part 1, 363)
> 40 ha
40-100 ha
%
100 ha and >
%
1882
142,000
113,000
1.98
29,000
0.52
1892
139,000
106,000
1.84
33,000
0.58
—3,000
—7,000
&4,000
%
Increase: < 1 ha
1882
2,168,000
38.22
1892
2,235,000
39.21
%
and 5-10 ha
1882
769,000
13.56
1892
788,000
13.82 by % area under potatoes
10 and > %
Basses-Alpes
Loire
Rhône
Vosges
Puy-de-Dôme
Pyrénées-Orientales
Sarthe
Haute-Rhin (Belfort)
Haute Vienne
Seine
Saône-et-Loire
Ariège
Dordogne
Ardèche
Correze


 by % of vineyards
Indre-et-Loire
 5% and >
Gard
Vaucluse
Lot-et-Garonne
Lot
Rhône
Maine-et-Loire
Pyrénées-Orientales
Loire-et-Cher
Gironde
Tarn-et-Garonne
Gers
Puy-de-Dôme
Aude
Var
Hérault
Haute-Garonne

% of area under cereals p. 6 5 area (without %!!) under industrial crops: p. 164
vegetable gardens p. 199 without % vineyards p. 11, % given
All (?) (not all) crops by %%: p.  3 8 .
potato % given p. 1 3 9 .
Area under vineyards in France (Bulgakov, II, 193)
This is area of total, Total area under vine- farmland (ha)
yards c.
Under 1 ha
11%
1,327,253
145,000 ha
 1-10
”
6%
5,489,200
=11,244,700
675,000 ha
5,755,500
 10-40
”
2.7%
14,313,417
386,000 ha
40 and > ”
3%
22,493,393
675,000 ha
Average
4.5%
49,378,763
1,881,000 ha according to Note 4 on p. 184 vineyards total 1,800,000 ha
Over 10%
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Departments with the most developed beetroot produc- tion: (p. 180)
ha
Area un-
Total area
Under
p. 139
under der farms under all potatoes
% of plough- beetroot
40 ha farms ha ha land and >
%
1.
Nord
47,903
167,836
5 1 1 , 1 6 6

19, 714
5.3
Aisne
61,429
392,007
674,860
>2
13,286
2.6
Pas-de-Calais
37,325
250,733
629,350
<2
24,279
4.6
Somme
35,096
253,496
591, 250
<2
15,374
3.1
4. Oise
24,828
296,201
529,933
>2
7,601
1.9
Seine-et-Marne
16,278
339,419
547,800
>2
10, 001
2.4
Seine-et-Oise
9,992
287, 377
501,302
>2
16,802
4.4
8. Ardennes
5,212
271 , 518
485,290
>2
17, 149
6.0
Σ=238,063
2,258,587
4,471,001
>2
124,206 average for
Of total ha
> 2 with average for France
France
 271,258
45.55% (of 1,474,144)
5.72% (products on them—64 mill.
quintals out of 72)
1892= 271,000 ha
1882=240,000 ”
1862= 136,000 ”
1840= 58,000 ”