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bacco stalks and preparing them for market ; 

 in frosty weather clearing the wood off, to 

 plant new land the next year, and cutting 

 the wood for rails, fire, &c. which shows 

 plainly the intended use of the country; 

 giving employment for the whole of the year. 

 As there cannot be any thing done to 

 tobacco during frost, the leaf all moulders 

 away, although in a house. Now if we 

 come to a calculation of the expences: 

 eight negroes, at eight hundred pounds, to 

 begin with : add twelve pounds per cent 

 .each year on the first expence, which is 

 ninety- six ; thirty pounds each per year for 

 board and clothing ; amounting to the sum 

 of three hundred and thirty-six : then, sup- 

 posing the tobacco to make thirty-five 

 pounds an acre on the average, the sum will 

 be five hundred and four pounds clear of all 

 expences. And as tobacco is a very fluctuat- 

 ing crop, " but not more so than hops in 

 England," I imagine thirty-five pounds per 

 acre to be a just calculation. Now, if the 

 man looks after his own negroes, and works 

 himself, there will be a deduction of a negro 



