These are moreover the very gubernias in which the Bank operated most extensively. (Ibid., p. 100.)
[183] Loans granted by the Bank:
| Rubles. | |
|---|---|
| In 1884 | 9,529,368 |
| ” 1885 | 13,761,978 |
| ” 1886 | 11,148,850 |
| ” 1887 | 7,495,197 |
| ” 1888 | 5,133,539 |
| ” 1889 | 3,692,133 |
| ” 1890 | 4,519,209 |
| Total | 56,140,438 |
(Ibid., p. 103.)
[184] The normal size of a peasant farm, which is above referred to, was calculated in Chapters II. and X. These are the respective figures:
| Normal extent of landholding, Dessiatines. | Actual average, Dessiatines. | Excess of the normal over the average, per cent. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranenburg and Dankoff: | |||
| (Communities of which all the members are farmers taken as the normal.) To 1 “revision” male | 5.0 | 3.4 | +47 |
| Korotoyak: | |||
| (Farms with net profit taken as the normal.) To 1 adult male worker | 11.5 | 8.3 | +39 |
The extent of landholding in the gubernia of Ryazañ (districts of Ranenburg and Dankoff) may be considered as characteristic of the central and most crowded part of the black soil zone, while the gubernia of Voronezh (d. of Korotoyak) partakes of the character of the more thinly populated border districts adjoining the southeastern prairies.—(Cf., Prof. Janson’s Essay of a Statistical Investigation, etc., App., pp. 12, 13, Table II. [bis]). Should we fix the increase of landholding needed by the peasants at 40 per cent. in the gubernias of the famine stricken sections of Middle Russia (Voronezh, Kazañ, Kursk, Orel, Penza, Ryazañ, Samara, Saratoff, Simbirsk, Tamboff, Tula), the area lacking would compare as follows with that purchased through the Peasant’s Bank (Cf., Herzenstein, l. c., p. 104):
| Dessiatines. | Per cent. | |
|---|---|---|
| Land wanting | 12,070,484 | 100 |
| Land purchased through the Bank (from April, 1883, up to January 1, 1890) | 1,579,391 | 13 |
Mr. Lobachevsky, in his article above referred to, estimated the need of land in 8 gubernias of the same section, at 17,124,321 dessiatines (l. c., April, 1883, p. 178), which is about ten times as much as the land acquired through the Peasant’s Bank.
[185] “Russian famines and the measures of the Government against them,” by Prof. Romanovitch-Slavatinsky, University Records, Jan., 1892, pp. 40, 61 (monthly publication of St. Vladimir University, Kieff.)