Changes in the national system are only indirectly relevant. It is quite conceivable that both types should exist as well under a regime of absentee landlords or tax farmers so long as these outsiders treated the village as a collectivity, as under the present system of freehold, under which taxes are individually assessed and collected by state officials. Since, as will appear, with population growth one type must a priori develop into the other, I am presenting a model of one aspect of the recent history of many Turkish villages, quite independent of the national reforms. More land is available for cultivation than the village population, with their technical resources can use. Hence anyone who has the necessary man-power, draught animals and seed, can plough land freely.
All cultivable land is under cultivation, except for essential meadow land for pasture.