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 PRODUCTION AND IN'D

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boats. Tki e:> include 2 ex-German and 7 ex-Aus-trian. The

iubuiarines number 'ubout 65, but 14 older boats are to be sold A large number of motor submarine chasers were built.

mitoitifbl In Uruno, Carto, ('ueeo, Monfaleont mnd Vk I tons,

2 15in., 4 ISpr. and 6 light guns.

The personnel normally consists of oTer 1,000 officers and 40,000 meu, but the numbers have been reduced.

Production and Industry. I. Agriccltcrk.

The systems of cultivation iu Italy maybe reduced to three: — 1. The system of peasant proprietorship (coltivarione per eoonomia o a mano propria) ; 2. That of partnership (colonia parziaria) : 3. That of rent (amtto). Peasant proprietorship is most common in Piedmont and Liguria, but is found in many other parts of Italy. The system of partnership or colonia parziaria, more especially iu the form of mexaadria, consists in a form of partnership u the proprietor and the cultivator. This system is general in Tuscany, the Marches, and Un.bria. It is almost unknown in the Basilicata, little practised in Apulia, Calabria, and Sardinia, and has been entirely abandoned iu the two most advanced centres of cultivation in the south, viz. : — Bareseand the province of Naples. Various modifications of the system exist in different parts of Italy. The system of rent affitto) exists in Lombardyand Venetia. Large fauna (la grande coltura) exist iu the neighbourhood of Vereelli, Pavia, Milan, Cremona, Chioggia, Ferrara, Grosseto, Rome, Caserta, and in Apulia, the Basilicata, Calabria, aud at Girgenti and Trapani in Sicily. In Italv generally the land is much subdivided.

The area of Italy comprises 71,652,592 acres. Of this area 65,995,000 acres are under crops and 5,662.500 acres are waste.

Number of proprietor? in Italv, 1911 : — Proprietors of lands, 1,326,736 ; of buildings, 732,484; of lands and buildings, 1.737,341; total, 3,796,561. Proprietors of lands and buildings (3,796,561) per 100 of population, 11 ; proprietors of lauds (3,064,077) per square mile, 27.

The principal crops for 3 years were as follows : —

torotf*

Produce in cwts.

lflll

1010

1920

1918

1910

1920

Wheat.

10,914,250

10,694,000

99,776.000

-*5,000

Barley

MM K)

485,500

500.000

4,218,000

3,026.000

2,556,000

Oats.

t,DM4G

1,143.790

13,166,000

10,080,000

•i2,00u

Ri«

273. OQ'J

2.65S.000

2.322.000

2,306,000

.

3.J9S.000

3,753,250

43.4

43,366,000

Rice

346,000

929,390

10,470,000

34,000

9,024,000

Beans.

1,077,000

979,000

l,i. 63,000

8,362,000

18, 000

5.190.000

Potatoes

747,450

7tt,500

28,li»S,000

-o.OOO

58,440,000

■Hkr Beet-

root.

107,000

107,500

115,000

njno, oo

28,000,000

24,000,000

Vines i.

7,261,000

10,759,000

—

'..237,632

726.000

930,468

Olives i.

5,750,000


 * >,73>.,7JO

—

352,000

418,000

1 Produce in thousand .'allow.

In 1918 Italy had 989.786 horses, 949. 1 62 asses, 496,743 mules, 6,239,741 eattl*. 24,02* buffaloes, 2,388,926 pigs, 11,753,910 sheep, and 3,082,558 goats.