Incomes And Expenditures Of Peasant Proprietors.—
The incomes and expenditures of the three households referred to in [Appendix XII] were:
| Income | Expenditure | Balance in hand | |
| yen | yen | yen | |
| A | 477 | 449 | 28 |
| B | 915 | 838 | 77 |
| C | 971 | 703 | 68 |
Household Expenditures.—The household expenditures of the three families were, in yen:
| A | B | C | |
| yen | yen | yen | |
| Food | 192.76 | 216.64 | 189.57 |
| House | 2.32 | 2.24 | 1.20 |
| Clothes | 18.72 | 15.16 | 10.08 |
| Fuel | 12.72 | 13.53 | 21.00 |
| Tools and furniture | 10.97 | 160.18 | 1.66 |
| Social intercourse | 9.58 | -- | 6.05 |
| Education | 1.56 | -- | 4.15 |
| Amusement | 3.30 | 2.03 | 18.00 |
| Unforeseen | 7.85 | 13.72 | 22.33 |
| Miscellaneous | 6.43 | 7.71 | 11.15 |
| ______ | ______ | ______ | |
| 266.21 | 431.21 | 285.19 |
It will be observed that the expenditure of B under the heading of furniture, 160 yen, is out of all proportion with the expenditures of A and C, 10 yen and 1 yen respectively. This is due to the fact that B had to provide a bride's chest for a daughter.
A balance sheet given me by a peasant proprietor in Aichi (5tan of two-crop paddy and 5 tan of upland) showed a balance in hand of 27 yen.
An agricultural expert said to me, "The peasant proprietors are the backbone of the country, but the condition of the backbone is not good. The peasant proprietors can make ends meet only by secondary employments." The expert showed me average figures for 18 farmers for 1891, 1900 and 1909. The average land of these men was a little over a chō of paddy and 5 tan of upland and some woodland. They had spent 39, 63 and 86 yen on artificial manures as against 100, 153 and 204 yen on food. The balance at the end of the year for the three years respectively was 27, 40 and 29 yen. "The figures reflect the general condition," I was told.
Incomes and Expenditures of Tenants.—I may also note the circumstances of the largest and of the smallest tenant in an Aichi village I visited. The largest tenant family showed a balance in hand, 93 yen; the smallest tenant, 23 yen.