----------------------------+---------------------+--------------------- | Korotoyak. | Nizhnedevitzk. +----------+----------+----------+---------- |Households|Households|Households|Households Extent of the farm. |with 3, |with 2, |with 3, |with 2, |or more, |or less, |or more, |or less, |workers. |workers. |workers. |workers. ----------------------------+----------+----------+----------+---------- Above 25 dessiatines:-- | | | | _a._ Employing farmers | 54 | 46 | 53 | 47 (total = 100) | | | | _b._ Non-employing farmers | 66 | 34 | 74 | 26 (total = 100) | | | | | | | | From 15 to 25 dessiatines:--| | | | _a._ Employing farmers | 21 | 79 | 31 | 69 (total = 100) | | | | _b._ Non-employing farmers | 31 | 69 | 36 | 64 (total = 100) | | | | ----------------------------+----------+----------+----------+---------- As the dissolution of the patriarchal family is going on at a progressive rate,[107] it follows that the class of employing farmers is on the rise. The farmer’s own family, supplemented by the assistance of one or two permanent wage-laborers, is the coming type of agricultural coöperation, which is destined to take the place of the natural family coöperation. CHAPTER X. THE MODERN AGRICULTURAL CLASSES. The existence of the employer presupposes his correlative, the employee. Thus we are brought close to the fact that there have arisen opposite social classes within the village community.