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whereas by an ukase of November 3rd./i6th., 1905, the land sold to the 

 peasants must be divided as far as possible in lots of a single piece of 

 suitable size, so that the Bank of necessity contributes by these sales 

 to the formation of small farms of a single piece. In order to show this 

 more clearly we reproduce the following table. 



Table XIII. — Return of Sales of Land by the 

 Peasants Bank [Deciatines) . 



Year 



Land Sold with Right (i) 

 to Mortgage 



To iMdividual 

 Peasants 



Total 



To Communes 



and Associations of 



Peasants 



Land sold for Cash 

 or Restored to 



the Original 



Owners, or given 



in Exchange or 



Freelv 



Total 



Total 



1906 

 1907 

 1 90S 

 1909 

 1910 



1,241 



4.559 

 126,043 



432,487 

 332,036 



3-1 



2.4 



38.0 



76.8 



89.3 



38,003 

 175,589 

 198,913 

 118,826 



31,142 



95-9 

 92.0 

 60.0 

 21. 1 

 8.4 



390 

 10,651 



6,801 

 11,676 



8,638 



i.o 

 5-6 



2.0 



2.1 

 2.3 



30,634 

 190,299 



331,757 

 562,983 

 371,786 



loo.o 



lOO.O 

 lOO.O 



100. o 

 1 00.0 



Total. . . 896,366 59.9 562,437 37.6 38,156 2.5 



1,496,959 lOO.O 



(i) As gnarantee of the balance of purchase price still due. 



Not less than 896,000 deciatines (1,000,000 ha.) or 14 o^ ^^^ total 

 land sold, was divided into well rounded off lots {otrouba and khoutor) ; 

 the figures in the table show that the sales to individual peasants are in- 

 creasing more and more in importance in comparison with those made to 

 collective bodies (rural communes and peasants' associations). Certainly, 

 many difficulties had to be overcome, disagreements between members 

 and with outsiders to be got rid of, before the work of the Bank could be 

 given this new direction. For a proper system of surveying and the sub- 

 division and sale of land to peasants in lots of a single piece answering to 

 the technical requirements of agriculture, a work of many years was 

 necessary, that is a work incomparably more considerable than the summary 

 mode of alienation previously in use and it is verv- easy to understand that 

 a large number of members of the board of the Bank at first were hostile 

 to this new undertaking. The selling price of all the land amounted to 

 180,000,000 roubles, so that the average price per deciatine, which up 

 to the year 1905 had never been 100 roubles, now almost always exceeds 

 that sum. 



