ISO

CULTIVATED HOLDINGS

The following table shows the relation between owned
holdings and cultivated holdings :

Owned Holdings
Cultivated Holdings or areas cultivated by one man

Number
Percentage
Number
Percentage

Above
100 acres ....
3
•7
—
—

91 to
100 „ ....
—
—
—
_

81 to
90 „ . . . .
—
_,
1
•8

71 to
80 „ ....
-
_
1
*8

61 to
70 „ ....
4
•9
2
•6

51 to
60 „ ....
4
•9
1
•3

41 to
50 „ ....
4
•9
3
•9

31 to
40 „ ....
3
••7
—
_

21 to
30 „ ....
18
4-2
14
3-7

15 to
20 „ ....
19
4-8
22
5-8

11 to
15 „ ....
28
6-6
49
12-8

6 to
10 „ ....
67
15-6
76
19'5

1 to
5 „ ....
138
30*9
175
45-7

Below
1 acre .....
148
34-3
39
10-1

431
100
888
100

A cursory glance at this table is likely to mislead any
one. Taking 15 acres again as the size of the economic
holding we see that while 12-6 per cent, of the owned hold-
ings are above this limit, only 11-9 per cent, of the
cultivated holdings are larger than this. This may sug-
gest that the subdivision of cultivation is greater than
the subdivision of ownership. This conclusion is not
true, because it applies to a small fraction and the differ-
ence is small and because we have seen that the average
size of the cultivated holding is larger (8*2 acres) than
that (7-3 acres) of an owned holding. A closer study of
the different frequency groups given above shows the
following tendencies :