U. S. S. R. the number of farms possessing their own 
grain cleaning machines and triers amounted to 11.6 
per cent of the total, those owning seeders to only 3.7 
per cent, reapers 6.2 per cent, threshers 4.3 per cent. 
The foregoing data indicate, in the first place, that 
the great mass of peasants were forced to limit them- 
selves to the most primitive conditions of cultivation, 
without such elementary necessary means of production 
as seeders, reapers, grain cleaners, and threshers. On 
the other hand, a considerable number of peasant farms 
were compelled to resort to the hiring of means of 
production, without which they would be unable to 
avail themselves sufficiently of whatever equipment they 
had at their disposal. The extent to which this hiring 
of agricultural equipment was carried may be seen 
from the following table: 
Farms Grouped According 
to Sown Area 
Up to 2 dessiatins......co.. 
2- 4 
4- 6 
6-9 
9-15 
15 and over 
Average 
Up to 2 dessiating......c 
2- 4 “ 
4- 6 
6-9 
9-15 
15 and over © 
AVErage eer 
Per Cent of Farms Working Land 
With Hi~~d Working Livestock 
192¢ 1025 1926 
6a £45 70.1 
384. 37.0 
20.1 19.3 
Ter 11.1 
53 
2.0 
38.0 
38 2 
36.6 
Per Cent of Farms Working Land 
With Hired Implements 
70.7 
38.8 
22.4 
15.6 
9.5 
8.4 
TT 88.8