+------------------------------+--------------------+------------+ | | Quantity of stock | | | | to one household. | | | +-------+------------+“Horseless,”| | Districts and classes. | |All kinds of| per cent. | | |Working|large cattle| | | |horses.| (horses | | | | |inclusive). | | +------------------------------+-------+------------+------------+ | _Ranenburg._ | | | | |In the communities in question| 1.6 | 3.2 | 27 | |Among former serfs at large | 1.2 | 2.6 | 37 | |Among former State peasants | | | | | with agrarian communism | 1.3 | 2.9 | 33 | | | | | | | _Dankoff._ | | | | |In the communities in question| 1.5 | 2.9 | 33 | |Among former serfs at large | 1.3 | 2.5 | 35 | |Among former State peasants | | | | | with agrarian communism | 1.3 | 2.6 | 33 | +------------------------------+-------+------------+------------+ [64] Altogether or partly, but without cultivating the rest personally. [65] Indeed, we find the _mir_ in some instances playing the part of land broker. The community of former serfs of Prince Shtchetinin, in the village of Sergievskee Borovok, Ranenburg, rented a field of 434 dessiatines (1172 acres), at 16 rubles the dessiatine, and re-rented one-third of the tract at a commission of from 3 to 4 rubles per dessiatine (_i. e._, from 20 to 25 per cent.), and even more. (_Reports_, part I., p. 316, No. 10. _Cf._ also p. 289, No. 15, etc.) No doubt this business could be as successfully performed by any East Side New York real estate and land improvement agency, as by the Ryazañ peasant communists. [66] _Ibid._, Vol. II., part I., p. 264. [67] This is shown by the comparative data concerning tenure at will among the two main divisions of the peasantry: