There is considered the provision of landowners and peasants farms of the Penza province with draught labour. There is given the information about the general number of horses in the province, their quantity at peasants and landowners, the dynamics of their quantity, the presence of the farms not possessing horses, reasons for insufficient growth of the total number of horses in the last quarter of the XIX centurybeginning of the XX century. The information is given in comparison with the general Russian information.

There are regarded the activities of the Peasant land bank in formation of own land fund at the expense of acquisition of manor estates, as well as manors selling of their lands to peasants of the region with the help of the bank. There are analyzed the reasons and conditions of buying and selling of holdings, purchase and selling prices for the lands and their dynamics, banks policy, requirements of the nobility and peasantry in the course of mobilization, influence of Stolypins reforms and the first Russian revolution on the mentioned processes. The events and phenomena chronologically refer to the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century.