phase. It is a twofold movement. The one is the American idea: toward many small farms, where each man is his own freeholder, independent, unconscious of grinding dependence—a freeholder, the "patent and passport of self-respect with the AngloSaxon race ever since Hengist and Horsa landed on the shores of England." The other is the European idea: it means landlordism, vast estates, a multitudinous tenantry, beggary, serfdom. Can this con dition be imposed on the Anglo-Saxon race in the nineteenth century?

The following tables furnish a study.

NUMBER AND SIZE OF FARMS Rented for Shares of Product,

TABLE VI.

NUMBER AND SIZE OF FARMS BY TOTALS IN EACH CLASS.

The Tenure OF FARMS IN THE TEN STATES, 1880.

TABLE VIII.

DIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF FARMS BETWEEN 1860 AND 1880 IN THE TEN STATES.

It is now proposed to arrange these eight classes of farmers into three great groups according to the quantity of land cultivated. Those cultivating less than 3 acres; 3 and less than 10; and 10 and less than 20; will constitute Group I. They are the single farmers whether proprietary, renters or share workers, employing no hired help. Group II. will embrace all those cultivating 20 acres of land and less than 500 acres. They are the middle class of farmers. The last class will be Group III., consisting of plantations cultivating from 500 acres upward. These three groups will be presented for 1860 and 1880. They are indexes to the economic movement in the South, as well as the strong tendency to multiply large plantations.