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Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 3 - From Marx to Mao

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110<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

between the groups as regards both the hiring <strong>of</strong> workers and<br />

the renting and leasing <strong>of</strong> land.<br />

Very interesting are the household data on the use <strong>of</strong> manure,<br />

cited by the Perm statisticians. Here is the result <strong>of</strong> an<br />

analysis <strong>of</strong> these data:<br />

Cart-loads<br />

% <strong>of</strong> farms<strong>of</strong> manure<br />

Groups <strong>of</strong> householders using used per<br />

manure (manureusing)<br />

household<br />

Cultivating up <strong>to</strong> 5 dess. . . . . . . 33.9 80<br />

” 5 <strong>to</strong> 10 ” . . . . . . 66.2 116<br />

” 10 <strong>to</strong> 20 ” . . . . . . 70.3 197<br />

” 20 <strong>to</strong> 50 ” . . . . . . 76.9 358<br />

” over 50 ” . . . . . . 84.3 732<br />

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.7 176<br />

Thus, here <strong>to</strong>o, we see a pr<strong>of</strong>ound difference in the systems<br />

and methods <strong>of</strong> farming employed by the poor and the<br />

affluent peasants. And this difference must exist everywhere,<br />

since the well-<strong>to</strong>-do peasants everywhere concentrate in<br />

their hands the greater part <strong>of</strong> the peasant-owned animals,<br />

and have more opportunities for expending-their labour on<br />

farm improvements. Therefore, if we learn, for example, that<br />

the post-Reform “peasantry” have at one and the same time<br />

created a group <strong>of</strong> horseless and cattleless households and<br />

“raised agricultural efficiency” by adopting the practice <strong>of</strong><br />

manuring the soil (described in detail by Mr. V. V. in his<br />

Progressive Trends in Peasant Farming, pp. 123-160 and foll.),<br />

this quite clearly shows us that the “progressive trends”<br />

simply indicate the progress <strong>of</strong> the rural bourgeoisie. This<br />

is seen even more distinctly in the distribution <strong>of</strong> improved<br />

agricultural implements, data regarding which are also available<br />

in the Perm statistics. These data, however, have been<br />

collected not for the whole <strong>of</strong> the agricultural part <strong>of</strong> the<br />

uyezd, but only for its 3rd, 5th and 4th districts, comprising<br />

15,076 households out <strong>of</strong> 23,574. The following improved<br />

implements are registered: winnowers 1,049, seed-sorters 225,<br />

threshers 354, <strong>to</strong>talling 1,628. They are distributed among the<br />

groups as follows:

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