THE RESULTS OF THE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM 10' 



The following table shows the development of these relations before 

 and at the time of the enquiry-, and on nadiel lands and lands of the bank 

 and the domains. 



Number of 



Farmer Members 



of Co-operative Unions 



All Co-operative Unions | 



Co-operative Credit Unions | 



Agricultural Societies 



Other Co-operative Unions \ 



§ 10. Agriculture in the newly formed peasants' farms. 



The agrarian reform has freed peasant farming from the fetters of the 

 ohstschina of the common land. The Fliirzwang and its consequences 

 — simultaneous preparation of the soil, sowing, harvesting and other 

 operations on the part of all holders — no longer limit peasant farming, 

 which has come to develop more freely and to use fully all the available 

 land and labour. This process of adjusting the newly settled peasants' 

 farms to natural and agricultural factors is now in full swing but has of 

 course not yet come to an end in its most important respects. Yet already 

 at the time of the enquiry the following general conclusions could be made 

 as to agriculture. 



The three-field system, formerly universally prevalent, no longer dom- 

 inates agriculture but begins to give place to other and more perfect sys- 

 tems. In the north western district the change is in the direction of a 

 production of the raw materials of manufacture, flax being the most import- 

 ant crop and one which can be well marketed. Rschev is an example 

 of a district in which the three-field is being exchanged for a six-field system, 

 the following being the order of succession : (i) fallow land is manured ; 



(i) a = before the enquiry; 6 = at the time of the enquiry. 



