REMARKS ON M. E. SEIGNOURET’S BOOK,
ESSAYS ON SOCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
ECONOMICS 85
M. E. Seignouret, Essais d’économie sociale et agricole,
Paris 1897. (p. 232 et seq.)—in one of the essays he makes
a comparison between small, big and medium wine-growing
(1 8 6 9—Gironde Agricultural Society) farms fictitious example N.B.
I. small
1 ha 60 ares—works himself and family only
II. medium
10 ha 25 ares—himself and family and one labourer (ploughman helper)
& day labourers
III. big
51 ha 25 ares—does not work himself. Senior servant 1, ploughmen-servants
(3) and wine-growers (6-7)
at settled wages
To I: it takes working days:
250 male & 200 female
50 male &
50 female remain for day labourers small medium big
Value of property fr.
fr.
fr.
Vineyards . . . . . . .
4,800
24,000
110,000
Other land . . . . . .

10,500
55,000
House
. . . . . . . .
1,000
 2,000
18,000
Implements and livestock
—
1,000
 4,000
Σ=6,û00
Σ=37,500
Σ=187,000
!
!


Outlays small medium big
4%

1,500
7,480 taxes and prestations


Vine-props
. . . . . .


Vine .
. . . . . . . .


Manure . . . . . . . .
40 various
125 shoeing expenses
& 33 of cattle and re- payment*
Vine .
. . . . . . . .


Straw
. . . . . . . .

fertiliser

Transportation . . . . .

House repairs . . . . .


Fire insurance . . . . .


Repair of barrels, etc.


& 30
& 60
Grape gathering (No. 1)


2,000
&1,170

2,450 wages &187& more wages = 1,350
250 male days at 2.25=562
300 male cane days rush

2.25=675
200 female days at 0.75=150
250 fem.
%
—215 days
0.75=187 various=625
Σ = 1,210**
Σ = 4,182
Σ = 18,510 (No. 1) Payment or compensation for several days of work
by men or women, purchase of food, estimated at 20 fr.
p. 241).
* In this column, Seignouret says: “Veterinary insurance of animals or
loss of their value is more considerable than with a small holder”.—Ed.
** In the listing of outlays for the small farm, there is an omission
of interest—4 fr.—Ed.


Receipts small medium big
4 barrels of wine at 240=960
182 barrels
75 barrels at 250=4,625 at 275=20,625 from land—732
90 hl. of wheat
= 2,250 receipts=5,357 the rest from land= 655
Σ=23,530
Balance—250 Balance &1,175 Balance &5, 00
In other words
Receipts =
960—198=462 (498 = 1,210—562—150)
day labour
50 male days at
2.25 = 112.50
50 fem. days at
0.75 = 37.50 and as senior servant (labourer)
he would have had 8 4 0 francs.
Written in June-October 1901
First printed in the Fourth
Printed from the original
Russian edition