§ MR. PARTINGTONTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the number of agricultural labourers and of other people employed in agriculture in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Austria-Hungary for the years 1881, 1891, and 1901.
| Statement showing the total number of persons engaged in agriculture and of agricultural labourers in the under-mentioned countries and years:— | |||||
| (Note.—The occupations included under the term agriculture vary in the Census reports for the different countries.) | |||||
| Country. | Occupations included. | Date of Census. | Persons engaged in Agriculture. | Agricultural labourers. | |
| Germany | Tillage of soil, stock raising, vegetable, fruit, vine, and tobacco cultivation, dairying | } | 1895 | 8,045,441 | 5,445,924 |
| 1882 | 8,063,966 | 5,763,970 | |||
| France | Tillage of soil, threshing, market gardening, mushroom growing, dairying | } | 1901 | 8,100,000 | 3,565,600 |
| 1896 | 8,430,000 | 4,022,000 | |||
| Austria | Tillage of soil, raising of farm stock, gardening | } | l900 | 8,113,758 | 5,941,275 |
| 1890 | 8,394,638 | 6,379,085 | |||
| Hungary | Tillage of soil, stock raising, poultry farming, dairying, market gardening, horticulture | } | 1900 | 4,916,008 | 3,368,996 |
| 1890 | 4,459,712 | 2,836,43 | |||
| Italy | Tillage of soil, cultivation of fruits, tobacco growing, stock raising, poultry and bee keeping, mushroom growing, forestry and woodcutting | } | 1901 | 9,611,003 | 4,156,753 |
| 1882 | 8,566,467 | cannot be stated. | |||
| Spain | No information available. | ||||
| *Forestry workers and woodcutters, which are included in the Italian figures, but not in the totals for other countries, numbered 44,663 in 1901; the corresponding figure for 1882 cannot be stated. |