AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF EUROPE. 
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LARGE VERSUS SMALL FARMS IN ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 
The number of animals on the smaller holdings is greater per acre 
of agricultural land than on the larger farms, as brought out in 
Table 105. 
Table 105. 
Value of live stock on large farms and small holdings in Bohemia, 
Moravia, and Silesia, 1904-1913. 
Average per acre of agricultural land. 
Species. 
5 to 12 
acres. 
12 to 50 50 to 250 
acres. 1 acres. 
Over 
250 acres. 
Horned cattle 
Kroner. 
328 
44 
2.7 
11.0 
Kroner. Kroner. 
211 171 
29 14 
2. 2 3. 4 
6.6 3.0 
Kroner. 
123 
Pigs 
2 
2.9 
Fowls 
0.3 
The small farmer's family has always a horse or an ox, a cow, 1 or 
2 calves, 2 or 3 pigs, 1 or 2 sheep, and some chickens. Consequently 
there is a greater number of livestock per acre on the small farm. 
When large estates are divided there is always a tendency to increase 
the number of live animals per acre of plow land. 
THE LAND REFORM. 
In a table in "La Reforme Agraire en Tchecoslovaque" the areas 
of the properties seized in the entire Czechoslovak Republic are given 
as follows: 
Table 106. — Czechoslovakia: Total area of land and land 
expropriated. 
Item. 
Area in 
Republic. 
Area expropriated. 
Land under cultivation: 
Acres. 
14,751.485 
3, 418, 354 
379, 219 
46,200 
Acres. 
2, 463, 600 
494,200 
55,300 
3,700 
Per cent. 
16.7 
Meadows 
14.5 
Gardens 
14.6 
8.0 
Total 
18, 595, 258 
2,851,448 
11,517,660 
192, 733 
1, 558, 791 
3, 016, S00 
448,500 
5, 989, 000 
100,300 
143, 100 
16. 2 
Pastures 
15.7 
Forests 
52.0 
Lakes, marshes, etc 
52.0 
Unproductive 
9.2 
Total 
34, 715, 890 
9, 697, 700 
27 y 
According to the following information furnished by Dr. Yladimer 
Brdlik of the agricultural section of the Czechoslovak Technical 
School, the total areas of the agricultural lands expropriated are 
somewhat higher than the above: 
Agricultural lands expropriated. 
Total of 
large estates. 
Amount 
expropriated 
from large 
estates. 
Per cent. 
Acres. 
2, 107, 269 
2, 090, 861 
Acres. 
1, 829. 405 
1,391,297 
87 
67 
Slovak lands 
4, 198, 130 
3,220,702 
