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 themselves
 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