Chapter 23 appendix

I Refer to the following books: LaRepartitionmetriquedesimpots, byA. Toubeau, in two volumes, published by Guillaumin bookshop in 1880. (We do not agree with Du Bo's conclusions, but this book is a veritable encyclopedia of material that demonstrates what we can get from the land.) LaCulture maraichere, by M. Ponce, Paris, 1869． Le Potager Gressent, Paris, 1885.This is a beautiful practical work. Physiologie et culture duble, by Risler, Paris, 1881. Leble, sacultureintensiveextensive, by Lecouteux, Paris, 1883. LaCite Chinoise, by Bugene Simon. Ledictionnaired'agriculture, by Barral. (Hachette, Bookstore Publishing.)

The Rothamstead Experiments, by Wm. Fream, London, 1888, (unfertilised farming, etc.) published by the "Field" office. Fields, Factories and Workshops, by P. Kropotkin． (Published by Thomas Ne-lson & Sons Bookstore.) II The agricultural calculations, the figures which prove that the inhabitants of the Seine and Seine-Oise can live in complete comfort with little annual labor on their land to produce food, are now summarized as follows: : Seine and Seine-Oise Number of inhabitants in 1889 -------------- 3,900,000 Land area (acres) ---------- 1,507,300 Average number of residents per acre ---------- 2.6

Acreage of land cultivated for raising residents (acres):— Cereals -------------------------------------- 494,000 Natural and Worker Pastures ------------------------- 494,000 Vegetables and fruits ----------------------------- from 17,300 to 25,000 The area occupied by other houses, roads, parks, forests, etc. -----494,000 The number of working days (five hours per day) necessary for cultivating and improving the area of ​​the above-mentioned land in a year Cereals (cultivation and harvesting) -------------- 15,000,000 Grass, milk, livestock ---------------- 10,000,000 Market gardening, first-class fruit -------------- 33,000,000

Other temporary labor ------------------ 12,000,000 Total ----------------------------70,000,000 If half the able-bodied men (both men and women) were willing to take up agriculture, seventy million days' labor would be distributed to 1.2 million people, each working five hours a day, and only fifty-eight days in a year would be required. That's enough.Then, all the bread, milk, vegetables, fruits, etc., necessary for the inhabitants of these two provinces, whether for daily necessities or luxuries, will be available.Today it takes a worker at least one-third of his three hundred working days a year to get the necessary food for his family (whose needs are generally unsatisfied). That is, not two hundred and ninety hours, but one thousand hours.In other words, he actually had to work 700 hours extra to feed those vagrants and so-called rulers; those people who cannot produce their own food, but spend money to buy it from merchants, who in turn buy it from farmers; Because farmers were plundered by the state and landlords, they could not get good tools, so they had to use rough tools and work hard, so they naturally couldn't get a good harvest.