yield of cotton which follows it on the same fields, as this might result 

 in detriment to the next tobacco crop. Thorough cultivation is given 

 all crops. 



The conditions obtaining on this plantation are fairly illustrative of 

 the great advances made by the best farmers in this section of the 

 South in the last few years. 



The residence is a spacious and comfortable two-story frame house, 

 approached by a magnificent avenue of Darlington oaks, and has an 

 extensive lawn of Bermuda grass well laid out and relieved by shrubs 

 and flower beds. The house is thoroughly plumbed, water being fur- 

 nished in ample quantity by a windmill. 



The outbuildings and vegetable garden are in the rear of the house. 

 Good stable accommodations are furnished the stock, and the tools are 

 fairly well housed. The commissary shop, smokehouse, guano-house, 

 packhouse, gin, mill, and various store and curing houses for the 

 tobacco complete the buildings equipment. The cabins of the principal 

 servants and laborers are near by, while the rest of the field help are 

 located on rented tracts surrounding the area under consideration. 

 With the exception of the overseer, who exercises personal supervision 

 over the details of the field operations, the rest of the labor employed 

 is colored. The average wage is about 50 cents a day. 



. The live stock consists on the average of 7 horses and 6 mules, which 

 are stabled, 15 head of cattle pastured during the day and stabled 

 nights, 25 head of swine penned at night, and about 30 hens. Only a 

 small part of the manure is saved and no special pains taken to prevent 

 waste of even this amount. The want of economy in this particular is 

 fully realized and steps will soon be taken to remedy it. The amount 

 of poultry kept is not an indication of the extent of that form of hus- 

 bandry in the locality, as it forms a large item with many farmers. 



The adaptation of certain soils to particular crops has been well 

 recognized. The soils of the Norfolk series from their lighter and better 

 drained features have been used principally for bright tobacco in the 

 rotation mentioned in a preceding page, the adaptation of the better 

 drained Portsmouth types to oats and grain crops has been taken advan- 

 tage of. while the heavier and poorly drained soils have been utilized for 

 Bermuda grass, pasture, or left uncultivated until opportunity offered 

 for their improvement. Ridges of lighter, better drained soil and spots 

 of heavy, poorly drained phases occur in nearly every field, and their 

 textural and drainage differences are reflected sometimes to a marked 

 degree in the resulting growth. Where no textural differences are 

 apparent to account for the difference in productiveness, the presence 

 of a compact sand hardpan obstructing drainage or an inclination of 

 the clay substratum allowing too complete drainage is sufficient to 

 account for the observed differences. 



