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and capitalist. As yet this plan does not have a wide use 

 in the state, though it, too, is on the increase. In this 

 the tenant may or may not be the common laborer ; in 

 the plans above mentioned he is usually the main laborer 

 as well as the performer of the specified functions. The 

 " standing rent " and the money rent tenants together 

 make up the census group of cash tenants. 



5. Small farms operated by owners. Under this plan 

 all the economic functions center in the owner of the 

 land. It goes without saying that it represents a higher 

 type of farming than any of the preceding. In fact it 

 represents from an ideal point of view the very highest 

 type of farming. It is interesting, therefore, to record 

 the fact that such farming is on the increase in Georgia. 



6. The plantation system is placed last, not because 

 it is regarded as the acme of the climax, but because it 

 does give scope for the exercise of a higher order of 

 managing ability than does any of the others. It is farm- 

 ing on a large scale as opposed to farming on a small 

 scale. The landlord is not only the managing entrepre- 

 neur to a more important extent than in any of the fore- 

 going cases but he is also a large capitalist and conducts 

 his farming operations through the employment of labor- 

 ers. This method of farming is on the increase and the 

 next chapter will show that the future is likely to see a 

 considerable extension of the plantation system to take 

 the place of the cropping system. 



