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The largest number of surveyors in the first years worked in the fol- 

 lowing five provinces (Governments) : 



Table IX. 



Work of lyand Readjustment Carried out 

 Individual Readjustment. Collective Readjustment. 



As we see, about a third (1,500,000 deciatines) of all the work of in- 

 side farm readjustment and more than one eighteenth of all the outside 

 surveying of the nadiel was done in these five provinces, forming a very 

 considerable proportion of the whole work done ; for it is well to observe 

 that the inside surveying (that is within the limits of the nadiel) is much 

 more compUcated and takes much more time than the other. 



Although considerable, the number of officers is yet insufficient to 

 meet the continually increasing appUcations of the peasants for farm 

 readjustment. The numerical insufiiciency of the employees and their 

 want of experience are among the principal difficulties in the way of farm 

 readjustment. It seems that these difliculties in certain cases have 

 their influence on the carrying out of the work (i) : on the other hand, it 

 appears from ofiicial reports that the General Management of Agriculture, 

 by the institution of special winter courses during the inevitable suspension of 

 the survey work, is endeavouring to increase the proportion of surveyors 

 well trained for their business, as before the beginning of the farm read- 

 justment work, there was hardly any knowledge of it in Russia. These efforts 

 have been fully successful and the result has been that since 19 11 the number 

 of professional surveyors attached to the land commission has increased to 

 2,730 and that of the assistant surveyors to 2,722. If to these we add the 

 members of the 47 provincial commissions and the 471 local commissions, all 

 directly taking part, to the number of 6,000 in the work of farm readjust- 

 ment, we obtain a total of 11,000 persons assisting as functionaries in 

 the great work of farm readjustment in Russia (2). 



(i) See F. E. Ordinski : " The Present Situation of the Lan'l Reform ", May-June Number 

 of Sidskoie Khozmisfvo i Liessovodsvo (Bulletin of the General Management of Agriculture). 

 (2) Zetnleoustroisivo, 1912, p. 21. 



