+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | | Korotoyak. | Nizhnedevitzk. | | +----------+----------+----------+----------+ | |Percentage|Percentage|Percentage|Percentage| | Households. | of male | of | of male | of | | |hands (of | families |hands (of | families | | | any age) |separated | any age) |separated | | |taking to |1878-1887.|taking to |1878-1887.| | | jobs. | | jobs. | | +-------------------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ |With 1 adult male worker | 52 | 44 | 67 | 44 | |With 2 adult male workers| 39 | 31 | 47 | 40 | |With 3 or more adult | 36 | 24 | 34 | 28 | | male workers | | | | | +-------------------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ The rate of separated families increases with the percentage of wage laborers. It is by wage laborers that most of the households of the modern type (with one adult male) have been started, while within the patriarchal household about two-thirds of its labor forces are applied to farming. The dissolution of the old household was of the greatest economic consequence, parcellation of the soil being its necessary result: