GERMANY AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



The cultivated area measured in 1910 2,119,677 hectares, when there 

 were 248,054 farms, which is to vSay that the average area of a farm was 8.5 

 hectares. 



Most farms measure from two to twenty hectares, and farms of this 

 size occupy the largest part, of the cultivated area, as follows : 



Percentage Percentage 



of Number of Cultivated 



of Farms Area 



Oberbayern 62.9 51.6 



Niedcrbayern 62.7 56.2 



Oberpfalz 64.8 62 



The group occupying the second largest part of the. cultivated area is 

 that of the farms of from twenty to a hundred hectares : 



Oberbayern 



Niederbayern 



Oberpfalz 



Farms of less than two or more than a hundred hectares cover an 

 insignificant area, but the number of those measuring less than two hectares 

 is very large. 



Percentage Percentage 



of Number of Farms of Cultivated Area 



Less More Less More 



than 2 hectares than 200 hectares than 2 hectares than 200 hectares 



Oberbayern . . 23.7 0.3 1.8 1.6 



Niederbayern . 26.6 0.2 2.7 1.3 



Oberpfalz . . . 26.1 0.2 2.7 2 



From 1882 to 1907 there were very important changes in the various 

 groups as regards the cultivated area, the number of farms and these percen- 

 tages. The number of the farms and the cultivated area at these two 

 dates were as follows : 



1882 1907 



Number Area Niunber Area 



of in of in 



Farms Hectares Farms Hectares 



Oberbayern 98,296 913,116 92,243 904,227 



Niederbayern ..... 83,891 687,131 82,520 680,218 

 Oberpfalz 65,867 519,380 64,071 494,929 



