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Normal size of a farm required by the present state of agriculture--Actual size of peasant farms--Legal discrimination--Want of fodder--Depressed condition of stock breeding--Want of fuel--Manure used as fuel--The land not fertilized--Exhaustion of the soil--Improper situation of the lots--Yields of cereals--Balance of peasant agriculture--Review of real peasant budgets--Development of money economy in peasant farming.