90 RUSSIA - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IK GENERAL 



varies very notably in different provinces, from 3.1 deciatines in Krement- 

 schug province (Government of Pultava) to 41.1 deciatines in Nikola] evsk 

 province (Government of Samara). 



Unification and the rendering contiguous of the parts of holdings has 

 distinctly improved the condition of the land and the method of employing 

 it, in comparison with the time before the land settlement. The fact 

 that the land was so much cut up into parcels and that the parcels were 

 scattered over the whole of the communal property, together with the 

 distance at which they lay from the homesteads, often made it impossible, 

 because luiremunerative, to cultivate the strips which were furthest re- 

 moved in spite of the very noticeable scarcity of land. After the land read- 

 justment there was an unmistakable and total change in the position, 

 a point which we illustrate in the following table. 



