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much as an acre, and they hold together Jess /> 



than a two-hundredth part of the land, they may'- , 

 be regarded as householders only. Excluding 

 these as not properly agricultural landowners, 

 it may then fairly be said that one person in 

 every hundred of the entire population is a land- 

 owner. Subdividing that figure by the average 

 numbers of each family, it may be concluded 

 that every twentieth head of a family is an 

 owner of land. 



But the tenant-farmers are entitled also to increased 



by the 



be reckoned as part owners of agricultural pro- interests of 

 perty, for, in the crops and live and dead stock, f" armers 

 they own equal to one-fifth of the whole capital 

 value of the land. Part of this is incorporated 

 with the soil, and it is all as indispensable for 

 the production of crops as the land itself. As 

 cultivators, they employ and possess individually 

 a larger capital than the peasant proprietors 

 of other countries in their double capacity as 

 owners and cultivators. They are 1,160,000 in 

 number, and when added to 320,000 owners of 

 one acre and upwards, make 1,480,000 alto- 

 gether, engaged in the ownership and cultivation 



