ABSTRACT
YUTS’UN and Luts’un are villages which outwardly resemble each other. Both are located in the center of fertile valleys where the population is dense and arable land is limited. If we compare the two villages more closely, however, it can be seen that Yuts’un is even more populous and has even less land than Luts’un. There are 156 households and 777 individuals in Yuts’un. The total amount of land owned by private households is 665 mow. The average amount of land owned by each household is 4.3 mow, or 0.85 mow for each individual. In Luts’un there are 122 households and 611 individuals, who possess 690 mow of land, which is about 5.7 mow for each household, on the average, and 1.3 mow for each individual. As regards the area under cultivation, the average size of a farm in Luts’un is 9 mow and in Yuts’un 6 mow. If we compare how the land is used, the difference is even more striking. In Yuts’un a large amount of land is cultivated intensively as truck gardens, while in Luts’un we recall that some of the rich sandy land along the river is little cultivated and used simply to grow corn. The reason for this difference in the use of the land in the two villages is that Yuts’un is located near a market town where vegetables are in demand and has good transportation to other distant markets, while Luts’un is more isolated. We may start our discussion of Yuts’un, then, by a discussion of the use to which the land is put.
