As above mentioned, in those very communities where communal tenure is yet in existence, side by side with it individual tenancy has taken root: _Ranenburg._ _Dankoff._ _Dessiatines._ _Per cent._ _Dessiatines._ _Per cent._ Held by the _mir_ 2195 66 2240 81 Held by individuals 1138 34 534 19 ---- --- ---- --- Total rented 3333 100 2774 100 Thus communism in tenancy is passing away; small holdings for a term of one summer have become to-day the dominant form of rental agreements.[66] CHAPTER VI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE FARMER INTO THE AGRICULTURAL LABORER. In the vast majority of cases tenure at will did but take the place of the old relations between master and serf.[67] The obligation of the serf toward his master was discharged on some estates in labor (_corvée_), on others by payments, either in money or in kind. It is only natural to find the old practice inherited by modern economy: +---------------------+--------------+----------------+------------+ | | Communal | Individual | | | | tenure. | tenure. | In all.[68]| | +--------------+----------------+------------+ | |Communities. |Communities. | | | | | Land. | | Land. | Land. | | Rented for | +-----------+ +------------+------------+ | | |Dessiatines| |Dessiatines.|Dessiatines.| | | | |Per | | | Per | |Per | | | | |cent. | | |cent. | | cent.| +---------------------+--+----+------+---+-----+------+-----+------+ |Share in crops | 3| 47| 1 | 4| 382| 2| 429| 2| |Money rental (merely)|34|3330| 76 | 84| 6687| 43|10017| 50| |Labor (merely) | 1| 48| 1 | 8| 562| 4| 610| 3| |Labor compulsory and | | | | | | | | | | money in addition |10| 958| 22 |132| 8065| 51| 9023| 45| +---------------------+--+----+------+---+-----+------+-----+------+ | Total |48|4383| 100|228|15696| 100|20079| 100| +---------------------+--+----+------+---+-----+------+-----+------+