82 NOTICES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



can effectively be found the logical consequence is that the aga and the kmeti 

 would willingly accept the proposed reform and immediately come to an 

 agreement for the sharing of the lands in wliich they claim rights. 



Basing his argument on this consideration, Dr. Feifalik goes on to ex- 

 plain the procedure to be adopted for the establishment of the key-princi- 

 ple of which we have spoken and which is of capital importance to the so- 

 lution of the problem in question. 



The better to define his ideas he supposes the particular case of a ciflic 

 holding having an area of 60 dunum (i). He states that the various crops 

 grown on land of this area can bring in a gross revenue of 600 crowns (2), 

 from which however the tax of the tithe has to be deducted. The remaining 

 revenue is divided, one third going to the aga and two thirds to the kmet. 

 The gross value of the products are thus shared as follows : 



Ciflic Holding of 60 dunum. 



The tax of the tithe 60 crowns 



To the flgfl (1/3) 180 » 



To the kmet (2/3) 360 » 



Total . . . 600 « 



It should next be imagined that this holding of 60 dunum is not ciflic 

 as was presumed when the preceding figures were established. Let the 

 holding be supposed to be freely and absolutely owned b}^ the aga who 

 grants it to a metayer. The author believes that the revenue to be 

 derived from it in such conditions, ever>i:hing relevant to a contract of 

 the sort being taken into consideration, is indicated by the following for- 

 mula : 



, , 600-60 



(I) = 270 crowns. 



Take another hN'pothesis. Suppose that the holding in question, 

 while the form of its tenure is still that of free proprietorship, has an area of 

 only 40 dunum (3). The revenue to be derived by the aga is then repre- 

 sented as follows : 



400-40 



(2) = 180 crowns. 



2 



These formulae show that the revenue derived by the aga from ciflic 

 land having an area of 60 dunum is equal to that of a holding of only 

 40 dunum which he holds in free ownership. The ratio which should 

 obtain between an aga'a share and the whole area of any ciflic holding 

 subjected to the proposed division, is therefore expressed as follows: 



40 : 60 = 2 : 3. 



(i) 60 dunum = 136.90005 acres. 



{2) I crown of gold = 10.08096 d. at par. 



(3) 40 dunum = 91. 2667 acres. 



