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BI^LLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CULTIVATED LAND. 
According to the figures obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture 
and the taxation bureau of the Ministry of Finance, the cultivated 
area of Hungary on April 1, 1923, amounted to 16,118,899 cadastral 
yokes or 23,372,403 acres. In order to illustrate the distribution of 
this area Table 49 has been prepared in this consulate from official 
figures just received: 
Table 49. — Distribution of cultivated land according to class of estates in Hungary, 
April, 1928. 
Class of estates. 
Number of 
estates. 
Per cent. 
Area in 
cadastral 
yokes. 
Percent. 
Entailed estates 
3,258 
782,523 
0.4 i 3,850,070 
99.6 | 12,268,829 
23.9 
Estates fee simple 
76.1 
Total 
7S5,781 
100.0 
16,118,899 
100.0 
It is of importance to observe that the entailed estates amounting 
to only 0.4 per cent of the total number of estates registered in 
Hungary actually form 23.9 per cent of the cultivated area of the 
country. 
The number of estates given in Table 49 are divided, according to 
size, in the following manner: 
Table 50. — Distribution of cultivated land in Hungary according to size of estates, 
April, 1923. 
Size of estates. 
Number. 
Per cent. 
Area in 
cadastral 
yokes. 
Per cent. 
Under 100 yokes 
775,000 
7,848 
1,417 
1,213 
303 
98.60 
1.00 
0.20 
0.18 
0.02 
7,474,287 
1,695,744 
970,272 
2,383,691 
3,594,905 
46.4 
100 to 500 yokes 
10.5 
500 to 1 ,000 yokes 
6.0 
1,000 to 5,000 yokes-. 
14. S 
5,000 yokes and over 
22.3 
Total 
785,781 
100.00 
16,118,899 
100.0 
Although the so-called estates under 100 yokes amount to 98.6 
per cent of the total number of estates claimed by the Ministry of 
Agriculture to be in present Hungary, the area totals only 46.4 per 
cent, or less than half of the cultivated area of the country. 
The land reform act aims to diminish the abnormal difference 
shown in the above comparison by distributing the larger estates 
among "war heroes," agricultural laborers, pensioned public em- 
ployees, honorably discharged soldiers and public employees, gradu- 
ate agriculturists, and others. An attempt has been made already 
to divide the land in accordance with the reform, but reports claim 
that the land actually given out was only Leased because, of the 
combined protest of the large Landowners against a definite distribu- 
tion without reimbursement. 
According to the statistical bureau the large landowners who 
control the majority of the cultivated area of the country form only 
1.1 per cent of the total population of the country. 
Table 51 illustrates the distribution of the estates in fee simple 
according to their size: 
