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As we see, it is specially labourers who are married or about to marry 

 who desire to become landowners. 



Table VI shows the amount of labour for wages done by a certain num- 

 ber of farmers on holdings other than their own: 



Table VI. — Wage Labour of Fanners. 



Area of Panns 

 in Arcs 



Working Year 



Number 

 of Farms 



Number 

 of Farm.er3 

 working 

 on other 

 Holdings 



Average 

 Number 

 of Days 

 of labour 

 for Wages 

 per Year 



IIO to 221 . . 



221 to 331 



331 to 441 . . 



441 and over . 



/ 1900-1905 



, 1905-1910 



f 1910-iyii 



I 1900— 1905 



^ 1905-1910 



' 1910-1911 



/ 1900-1905 



j 1905-1910 



' 1910-19 1 1 



I 1900-1905 



^ 1905-1910 



' 1910-1911 



158 



175 

 198 



135 

 138 

 159 

 116 



1X6 

 120 



102 



"3 



107 



It is not surprising that" the ntmiber of farmers working less and less 

 on other holdings is increasing. But it will be regretted that the State Stat- 

 istical Office has not indicated to what we may attribute the fact that the 

 average number of days of labour for wages seems to increase as the years 

 go on, in every class. 



C. — Amount of Livestock and Mode of Utilisation of the Soil; 

 Co-operative Action of the Farmers. 



The Statistics of the number of Head of Livestock including Poultry 

 owned by the State farmers are important, as they permit of our apprec- 

 iating the economic situation of the peasant farmers. The statistical return 

 to which we have already referred gives us the situation of 5,374 farmeis, as 

 regards their livestock, on April ist,, 1911. At that date, as we shall see in 

 the following table, there were on their farms 5,187 horses, 22,079 head of 

 horned cattle, 33,623 pigs, 1,156 sheep and 155,250 fowls. 



