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 Note.—Departure from these figures is permitted, with special reference to climatic conditions and local customs of life, on a decision of the respective local Soviet authorities.

15. The number of dessyatins per LP. is arrived at by the division of the total number of dessyatins by the number of LP.

16. The number of non-able-bodied mouths per LP. is determined by the division of the total number of non-able-bodied agricultural population by the number of LP.

17. It is also necessary to take a census of the number of working horned and small cattle which can be supported on one dessyatin by one LP.

18. In determining the average, now prevailing, size of peasant holding in a district which is taken as the fundamental unit for the entire zone, it is necessary to find the average (in point of quality and productivity) dessyatin, which average is the quotient in the division of the sum total of the crops collected from all the dessyatins of different soils by the number of these soils.

19. The average figure thus arrived at constitutes the basis for determining the normal food-and-labour unit to which the individual household-farms are to be levelled up from the Land Reserve throughout the zone.

Note.—Should the average figure determined as above be found, on a provisional computation, to be inadequate for enabling a household to live in sufficiency (vide Part I., Art. 12), it shall be increased from the Land Reserve.

20. In order to determine the quantity of land of different kinds (arable, pasture, meadow, etc.) requisite for supplementary allotment in the case of those who hold insufficient land, it is necessary to multiply the quantity of dessyatins per one LP. in the district by the sum total of the working agricultural LP. in the zone and subtract from the product the quantity of land held by working peasants.

21. By comparing the quantity of land (in figures and percentages, according to its different kinds) in the Land Reserve with the quantity of land requisite for supplementary allotments among those who hold insufficient land, it is necessary to compute whether a resettlement of the population can be effected within the limits of the given zone. If it can, the size and the absorbing capacity of the Land Reserve must be determined; if not, it is the number of family households to be settled in another zone which has to be determined.

Note.—Both in cases when free land is available and when it is not, the principal Land Departments of the Soviet authority must be kept informed as to where, how much and what kind of lands are available unoccupied.