A
AN ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM STUMPFE’S ARTICLE, “ON THE COMPETITIVENESS OF SMALL
AND MEDIUM LAND HOLDINGS AS
COMPARED WITH LARGE LAND HOLDINGS”
Stumpfe. “Über die Konkurrenzfähigkeit des kleinen und mittleren Grundbesitzes gegenüber dem Grossgrundbesitze.”
Thiels landwirtschaftliche
Jahrbücher, 1896, Band 5.
Stumpfe comes straight to the point by saying that if large units in agriculture were superior to the small, as they
are in industry, the law on the settlement of Eastern Prussia
would have been a mistake, and the Social-Democrats would have been right (p. 58).
According to the 1882 data, medium farms (10-
100 ha!!) = 12.4% of the farms and 47.6% of the land— hence the “great economic importance of the peasantry” !
(p. 58).
9 farms [Big and medium—kept books. Small farms— “strongest mistrust” p. 59].
Group
I. Glogau district—sandy soil, rye and potatoes.
”
II. Neumarkt and Breslau districts—good soil, beet crops, very intensive.
”
III. Liegnitz district—lower intensiveness, weaker root crops.

V. I. LENIN

How
Land
Crop yield much classification
Crop area per Morgen
Livestock land
Class ha ha
Centners ha?
rye potato horses horned cattle
Big farm
1,033
V—


7.5

23& 170
{1892-93}
VI— 203 (1,903
VII— 198
Morgen)
VIII—

Medium
21.25
? almost


2&

farm the same oats: 7.5 (&6 pigs)
land
Note No. 1*
Small
11.25
V— 0.25

5.25
?
1&

farm
VI— 3 (&4 pigs)
VII— 3.50
VIII— 3
Big farm
471.5
I— 212.5
361w
10.7 beet
30& 180 (1892-93)
II— 120.5

III— 59.0 wheat
12.75 (111 sheep**)
Medium
51.5
III—25
47.5
8.9 beet
6& 29 farm
IV— 13

(14 pigs)
V— 4
VI— 0.75 wheat
11.3
Small
8.5
II— 1
7.25
?
0&

farm
III— 4 (6 pigs)
IV— 3.5
Big farm

?
?
?
29& 173 (1893-94)
324 sheep
47 pigs
Medium
40.75
III— 11.5
37.25
?
7& 29 farm
IV—22.25
19 pigs
V— 3.5
Small
8.0
III— 3.60
7.75
?
?
farm
IV— 1.75
V— 2.60
* See p. 236.—Ed.
**
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Group III
Group II
Group I
Group I
A figure denoting the increase of sheep in 1892 93.—Ed.