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pounds; and the eight men*s board will be 

 at least twenty pounds each ; which will 

 make the sum six hundred and thirty-eight 

 pounds. By the negroes the work is to 

 be done cheaper by having three women, 

 who are allowed to be equally as good in 

 raising tobacco. The women will be a sav- 

 i-ng of one hundred and fifty pounds in the 

 first purchase ; and they will wash and 

 milk. 



It may be asked by the reader, why tobac- 

 co-plantingis not more followed, if one ofthc 

 most profitable things on the American soils. 

 There are many causes : negroes are, in 

 the first price, a very heavy expence; and, 

 as I observe in myself, men are afraid to 

 engage in it. The curing of tobacco is an 

 art ', the management of negroes a trouble 

 that an emigrant probably does not choose 

 to engage in : and the tobacco requires 

 more money, as a smaller number of hands 

 will do in the farming way. Nor is all the 

 land proper for tobacco, only fresh or rich 

 land; for example, General Washington^ 



