Note 174 — Chapter XIII · AGRICULTURE ON A LARGE SCALE.
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The inference is drawn from the figures below:
Estates with large agriculture.Number.Average. Dessiatines.To 1 plough. Dessiatines.
Property of the nobility:
Estates with ploughs54104491
Estates without ploughs79428..
Property of the capitalist class:
Estates with ploughs2052093
Estates without ploughs47191..
With the nobility the average estate tilled exclusively with the peasant sohá is more than twice as large as the corresponding average with the capitalist class.
On the other hand, the capitalist provides his farm with ploughs when the same is only half as large as that on which the noble could afford to have improved implements.