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ECONOMICS OF LAND TENURE IN GEORGIA 



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It is found that in each of the first eight groups the 

 number of holdings has increased with remarkable per- 

 sistency from 1873 to 1902, though in each one the rate 

 of increase has suffered a decrease throughout the per- 

 iod. That is to say, the rate of increase in each of the 

 eight groups was much higher from 1870 to 1880 than 

 from 1880 to 1890, and higher from 1880 to 1890 than 

 from 1890 to 1900. 



In the last two groups an opposite tendency has oper- 

 ated ; there has been a decrease in the number of hold- 

 ings falling within each, and the rate of decrease has 

 tended to increase from decade to decade. An excep- 

 tion, however, is to be made in the case of the period 

 1873 to 1880 for the five hundred to one thousand acre 

 group, which shows an increase in proprietorships. The 

 downward movement was also slight in that period for 

 the tenth group. Notwithstanding this slight decrease 

 from 1873 to 1880 in the number of holdings containing 

 over five hundred acres there was during the same period 

 a very large increase in the number of holdings in each 

 of the groups below five hundred acres. 



