G86 Agricultural Administration in Austria-Hungary. 
names being arranged in the order of the average size of the 
occupations : — 
Average size it] 
acres 
Salzburg .... 93jf 
Carinthiia . . . 76* 
Dalmatia . . . . 15] i 
Tyrol and Vorarlberg . 52* 
Carniola . . . .40 
Coast-land . . . 37^ 
Bohemia . . . .31^ 
Styria . , 
Moravia . 
Lower Austria 
Bukowina 
Upper Austria 
Silesia . . 
Galicia 
Average size in 
acres 
. 28f 
. 27* 
. 27* 
. 26£ 
. 25 
. 183- 
. 17* 
It will be seen from these figures that, in the Alpine districts 
of Austria, the average size of peasant properties is, on the whole, 
larger than in the other districts. This is due chiefly to the 
fact that the holdings include a good deal of not very productive 
woodland. In some parts of the country, where the woods are 
not State property, many peasant-proprietors own as much as 
from 1,500 to 2,000 acres a-piece, about 1,000 acres of all such 
properties being entirely woodland. In the mountainous 
districts, where intercommunication is difficult, these properties 
are generally compact holdings. In the lowland country 
they are often intersected by other estates, or are held in 
separate lots. 
In those provinces where agriculture is most rational and 
most productive — viz., Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia — a large 
part of the soil is in the hands of the large proprietors. The 
estates belonging to peasant proprietors form but a small pro- 
portion of these provinces, and the average extent of such 
estates is less than 30 acres. A very large number of the 
Bohemian peasantry possess only a small patch of garden- 
ground ; and, as the produce of it is insufficient to support theui, 
this class of the peasantry hire themselves out as agricultural 
labourers. 
In the lowlands of Upper Austria small proprietors are 1 he 
predominant class, the average size of a peasant property in these 
parts being from 40 to GO acres. Many of these properties are, 
however, not less than 200 to 300 acres in extent. Similarly, 
in the lowland districts of Styria and Carniola the land is chiefly 
in the hands of small proprietors. 
In Galicia, a property of 20 acres is considered sufficient to 
maintain a peasant family ; and it will be seen from the st airmen) 
that the average size of the holdings in that province is only 
17£ acres — the lowest on the list. Some peasants, however, only 
possess from 1 to 2 acres of land apiece ; and these, like the 
same class in the northern provinces, maintain themselves and 
their families by the wages they earn as agricultural labourers. 
