real diseases 2.2 per cent.
Heights (1918): under 5 _shaku_, 10.95 per cent.; 5-5.3 _shaku_, 53.34
per cent.; 5.3-5.5 _shaku_, 33.13 per cent.; above 5.5 _shaku_, 2.58
per cent. In these four classes there was a decrease in height in the
first two of .39 per cent. and .57 per cent. respectively and an
increase in the second two of .80 per cent. and 15 per cent.
respectively.

HOKKAIDO HOLDINGS [LXIV]. There are only 28 holdings of more than
1,000 _cho_, 62 of over 500 _cho_, 161 over 100 _cho_ and 80 over 50
_cho_. These large holdings are used for cattle breeding alone. There
are no more than 620 holdings over 20 _cho_ and only 6,756 over 10.
The number over 5 _cho_ is 51,877, and over 2 _cho_ 62,015. Under the
area of 2 _cho_ there are as many as 40,928. Few of the largest
holdings are worked as single farms. They are let in sections to
tenants.

CLAUSES IN A TENANT'S CONTRACT [LXV]. (1) The tenant must make at
least 1 _cho_ of paddy every year. (2) Rent rice must be the best of
the harvest, but the tenant may pay in money. (3) In the following
cases the owner will give orders to the tenants: (_a_) If tenants do
not use enough manure, (_b_) If there is disease of plants or insect
pests, (_c_) If the tenant neglects to mend the road or other
necessary work is neglected. (4) The owner will dismiss a tenant:
(_a_) If the tenant does not pay his rent without reason, (_b_) If
the tenant is neglectful of his work or is idle, (_c_) If the tenant
is not obedient to the owner and does not keep this contract
faithfully. (_d_) If the tenant is punished by the law. (5) When
tenants leave without permission of absence more than twenty days the
owner can treat as he will crops or buildings. (6) In the following
cases the tenant must provide two labourers to the owner: mending
road, drainage canal or bridges; mending water gate and irrigation
canal; when necessary public works must be undertaken.

CULTIVATED AREA AND LIVESTOCK [LXVI]. The area of cultivated land in
Japan (counting paddy and arable) was, in 1919, 15,179,721 acres
(6,071,888 _cho_). The number of animals kept for tillage purposes was
1,199,970 horses and 1,036,020 homed cattle. The total number of
horses in the country was only 1,510,626 and of horned cattle,
excluding 207,891 returned as "calving" and 12,761 as "deaths,"
1,307,120. Sheep, 4,546; goats, 91,777; swine, 398,155. The number of
horned cattle slaughtered in the year was 226,108. Some 86,800 horse