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READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



This table is taken from the official statistics published by the 

 Belgian government in 1850. Those published in 1861 relate 

 to the year 1856, and are less detailed. In the following table, I 

 have given the data relative to the two Flanders, Namur, Luxem- 

 bourg, and the entire kingdom, as derived from those statistics. 

 Although the two tables are drawn up on different statistical 

 plans, the returns are about the same, and therefore the data 

 may be considered the more trustworthy. 



Owners, tenants, managers, 

 and directors of farms . . 



Gardeners, kitchen-gardeners, 

 horticulturists, arboricultur- 

 ists, silk-worm rearers, vint- 

 ners 



Shepherds, graziers, herdsmen 



Field hands and day labourers, 

 farm-servants of both sexes 



Wood-cutters and other wood 

 labourers, gamekeepers, and 

 others 



Flanders, West 



Males Females 



3 2 .6l7 



1,727 

 34 



63'957 



673 



28,132 



546 

 4 



39. 1 39 



i37 



Flanders, East 



Males Females 



79,207 



1,478 

 43 2 



63,174 



9S0 



35.812 



360 

 31,802 



' Luxembourg 



Males I Females 



19,223 



4,671 



62 

 532 



'4-445 



5S0 



99,278 



67,958 145,271 



67.97' 



34.842 I 11,947 



