58 GERMANY - CREDIT 



The farms for which loans had been granted up to the end of 191 2 

 were as follows in respect to their area and the amount of the loans granted 

 to them : 



Ana of Holdings Number 



I^ess than 5 ha 300 



Between 5 and 20 3,660 



» 20 » 50 V 4.283 



» 50 » 75 ■' 1,335 



» 75 » 100 ■ 451 



More than 100 ■ 415 



Amount of Loans 



Less than 2,000 marks . . . 

 Between 3,000 and 20,000 mks. 



» 20,000 » 100,000 » 

 More than 100,000 mks .... 



From the above figures, we see. that in the four provinces of Silesia, 

 East Prussia, West Prussia and Brandenburg, the peasants' holdings 

 for which loans were obtained form the I^andschaften were more than 50,000 

 in number and the amount lent was about 750,000,000 marks. However, 

 this is only a small number of the farms that are able to obtain credit 

 from the lyandschaften under the regulations in force, for there are 

 about 60,000 farms alone in the Province of Brandenburg and about 

 55,000 in that of East Prussia. 



The Neue Pommersche Landschaft (New Pomeranian I^andschaft) has 

 not flourished to the same degree, for in Pomerania the area farmed by the 

 peasants is not large. The number of farms for which it had granted 

 credit on June 24th., 1912 was only 1,320. 



In 1909, the I^andschaft of the Province of Saxony granted loans to 

 1,455 landowners for the amount of 102,800,000 mks., and in 1912 loans for 

 3,202 holdings, 405 of which were nobles' landed estates {Ritterguter) , 

 for the amount of 228,000,000 mks. 



At the end of 1 912, the Westfdlische Landschaft (WestphaUan Landschaft) 

 had granted loans for the amount of 102,900,000 marks for 4,986 holdings. 

 The comparatively low average amount of the loans shows^that they were 

 chiefly for peasant farms. 



The Landwirtschaftlicher Kreditverein fur Schleswig-Holstem (Schleswig- 

 Holstein Agricultural Credit Association) had, at the end of 1912, 3,200 

 members. Of the 501 new credits granted in 1912, 140 were for holdings 

 of less than 20 ha., 228 for holdings of between 20 and 50 ha., 103 for hold- 

 ings of from 50 to 100 ha. and 30 for those of more than 100 ha. 



