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Crop 120 bales of 350 pounds, 42,500 pounds lint, cost three cents per 

 pound, not counting interest on investment. That, at seven per cent., 

 would have made the cost six and a third cents, omitting to credit the 

 account with all perquisites to the planter, as a home and home supplies, 

 with increase of negro property, &c. 



Mr. Solon Robinson, of New York, in an extensive tour through the 

 South, gave, in 1848, the following carefully prepared statement regard- 

 ing the plantation of Col. Williams, of Society Hill, Darlington county, 

 South Carolina : 



CAPITAL INVESTED. 



4,200 acres land (2,700 cultivated) at $15 per acre $ 63,000 00 



254 sli^ves at §350 average, old and young 89,900 00 



60 mules and mares, one jack, one stud 3,720 00 



2,000 head of cattle . ' 2,000 00 



23 carts, six wagons 520 00 



500 head of hogs 1,000 00 



60 bull-tongue plows, 60 shaving plows, 25 turning plows, 18 



drill plows, 15 harrows 262 00 



All other plantation tools, estimated . 1,000 00 



Total investment • . . . $161,402 00 



EXPENSES. 



Seven per cent, interest on first five items $11,103 00 



3,980 yards Dundee bagging at 16 cents 536 80 



3,184 pounds rope at six cents 191 04 



Taxes 263 04 



Three overseers, wages $900, medical attendance $317.50 . . . 1,217 50 



Iron and tools purchased 200 00 



Clothing account 1,579 50 



Fifty sacks of salt $80.00, lime and plaster $194.00 274 00 



Carpenters and blacksmith work extra 100 00 



Outlay for gin belts, &c 80 00 



Molasses, tobacco and flour 170 00 



Three-eighths cent per pound freight and charges for market- 

 ing cotton 2,069 00 



$17,894 48 



