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first year's account are what I paid myself, 

 and are generally the same all over the 

 country: nar do I think I tilled my land 

 cheaper with my own horses and a white 

 man, as I had to keep them a long time, 

 during the winter, without receiving the 

 benefit of their service. The man whom I 

 employed for hire, with his horses, was a 

 neighbour, an Irishman : having many op- 

 portunities of talking with him, he has fre- 

 quently told me, that the manure from Balti- 

 more cost him more yearly than the value 

 of the produce which he raised on his farm. 

 He had a small plantation of about forty acres, 

 which he managed w^ell : he kept a wag- 

 gon and six horses, to VN^ork his own 

 land at convenient times, and let out for 

 hire. He had a son grown up: and, in 

 the season for ploughing, they both went 

 to plough, at three dollars, either per day 

 or acre at the option of their employer. — 

 Many people on small plantations have no 

 horse or plough : to raise an acre qf tv>^o 



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