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first year's account are what I paid myself, 

 and arc generally the same all over the 

 country: nor 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 well : he kept a wag- 

 gon and six horses, to work 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 or two 

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