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For the purpose of a comparison with these figures the author gives also 

 data as to the total assets of Siberian colonists. In Popov (i) these averaged 

 in the colonists' lots investigated by him 1,365 roubles (2) a lot, distributed 

 as follows : 



Cattle and poultry 



Farming implements, carts etc. . . 



Buildings 



Clothes 



Crockery and furniture, 



Total 



387 roubles 



322 



316 



286 



54 

 i;365 



28.4 % 



23-6 % 



23-1 % 

 21.0 % 



3.9 % 

 100 % 



The average percentage of the Habihties in the lots investigated was 

 as follows : 



Thus when the land was taken over debts to savings banks and pri- 

 vate persons predominated. After it had been taken over these items be- 

 came, as compared with the debt on the land, almost negligible, but on 

 I July 1912 were quite noticeable. The debt on the land although at first, 

 as we have already said, there was no obUgation on the colonists to make an- 

 nual payments towards redeeming it, sank from 94 per cent, to 60.3 per cent, 

 of the total sum of the liabilities. 



The oscillations of these liabilities in the single colonies appear in the 

 following table : 



(i) Angaben iiber die budget-wirtschaftliche Untersuchung von 75 Vbcrsicdlermrtschaften 

 in den Kreisen Kustanaisk, Aktjnbinsk und Uralsk. Orenburg, 191 1, pp. 10 et seq. 

 {2) I rouble = about 2s. ^Vod. at par. 



