RURAL ECONOMICS 



1825 



Table II. — Live stock on the estate, December 31, 1914. 



Lowland zone (36 farms). 



Bulls 



Bullocks (working) 

 Cows . . .• . . . 



Calves 



Yearling cattle . . 



Mares 



Foals . . . . .. 



Asses 



Pigs 



Sheep 



Hill Zone (20 farm) : 



Bullocks (working) 



Cows 



Calves 



Yearling cattle. . 



Mares. 



Foals 



Asses 



Pigs 



Sheep 



Mean 



live weight 



per head 



Quintals (2) 



ID 

 9 



7 



I 



5,5 

 5,5 

 3 



Total head 



Total Total head 



live weight per hectare 



4 

 no 



93 



32 

 69 

 40 



43 

 2 



454 

 138 



48 



10 



4 



14 



9 



14 



3 



237 



211 



Total 

 live weight 

 per hectare 



Qviintals 



40 

 990 



651 

 32 

 380 

 220 

 129 

 4 



384 

 60 



45 



42 

 6 



0-3 



0.5 

 0.2 



0-3 



0.9 

 0.8 



Quintals 



2.3 



0.4 



0.4 



(2) I quintal = 220.5 lbs. 



tenths of the normal man-day. The writer points ont that the chief charac- 

 teristic of the system of metayage is its remarkable elasticity with regard to 

 supplying laboitr. For instance at the present time when 20 per cent of 

 the men are away, the harvest was nevertheless carried out by the families 

 of the metayers with the help of only an additional 80 people from the town 

 of Casalina. This fact has suggested the possibility that up to the present 

 the labour of the metaj^ers and their families has not been used to the best 

 advantage. That the subdivision of holdings — a process with which the 

 growth of intensive farming was thought to be intimately connected owing 

 to the consequent increase of labour in the form of metayage — ma^^ not 

 be an econcmical procedure beyond a certain point, partly because it means 



