Note 121 — Chapter X · THE MODERN AGRICULTURAL CLASSES.

Stopped working on their plots. In the class. In the district at large.

Households. Per cent. Per cent.

Horseless24719013

With 1 horse2569} 1032} 87

With 2 horses or more33155

Total2760100100

The class almost coincides on the whole with the so-called “horseless:”

“Horseless.”Households.Per cent.

Traders683} 8

Tilling their plots1435

Stopped tilling their plots247192

Total2682100

The 10 per cent. who stopped tilling their plots, though owning 1 horse or more, as well as the 8 per cent. who manage to till their plots without working horses, make (each of these sections) only about 1 per cent. of the peasantry of the district. Thus, in identifying the proletarians with the “horseless,” the error is of the kind to be neglected, to use the mathematical term.