44 The Landed Interest. 



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. 

 Increased But the tenant-farmers are entitled also to 



by the 



interests of be reckoned as part owners of agricultural pro- 

 tenant- 

 farmers as perty, for in the crops and live and dead stock 



part 



owners of they own equal to one-fifth of the whole capital 



agricul- 

 tural pro- value of the land. Part of this is incorporated 

 perty. 



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 altoge- 

 ther, engaged in the ownership and cultivation 

 of the soil. When reckoned as heads of families 

 they comprise more than one-fifth of the total 



