SMALL HOLDINGS IN FRANCE.
Socialists in France, as wall as in England, are opponents of small proprietory holdings, and some of them have recently declared that the land of the peasant proprietors wan being swallowed ud in large estates, and that the rural p.-btiriat wa3 increasing: also that the small holdings were worse cultivated than large farms. In disproof of these statements M. Ruau, the Minister of Agriculture, has given the results of an inquiry into the subject made by the departmental Professors of Agriculture. These show that out of eighty-seven departments the concentration of landed property has taken place in only two during the last twenty years, while in sixty-five the number of small holdings his increased; that in the majority of departments the cultivation of small holdings is superior to that of the large estates; and that the lot of the rural labourers has steadily improved, many of them having become peasant proprietors.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9557, 2 August 1909, Page 3
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155SMALL HOLDINGS IN FRANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9557, 2 August 1909, Page 3
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