98 THE UPPER PINE BELT. 



CROP. 



13,509 pounds bacon for home place and factory §075 00 



Beef and butter for ditto and sales 500 00 



1,100 bushels corn for ditto and sales j . . . . 550 00 



Eighty cords of tan bark for tan yard 480 GO 



Charges to others for blacksmith work 100 00 



Mutton and wool for home use and sales 125 00 



$2^30^ 

 This sum, that is products other than cotton, deducted from 



expenses above stated leaves then $15,404 00 



This was the cost of a cotton crop of 351,000 pounds lint cotton, mak- 

 ing the cost per pound 4 7-10 cents. The cotton was sold at seven cents 

 per pound. Omitting charges for interest and taking no account of the 

 increasing value of the property, this gives 11 6-10 per cent, profits on 

 the total investment. Mr. J. J. Lucas, also from Society Hill, Darlington 

 county, reports, for 1879, that the cost of making cotton is twelve and a 

 half cents per pound, that the value of land is ten dollars and not fifteen 

 dollars per acre, as Mr. Williams states it, and that rents pay seven per 

 cent, on tlie investment in place of the above. 



It Avill be noticed that the cost of transportation to market and charges 

 for selling, &c.,were about one-half in 1848 what they are now. 



Abstract of the replies of Township correspondents, arranged accord- 

 ing to the Counties, Supervisor's Districts (Sup. Dist.) and Enumeration 

 Districts (E. D.) of the 10th United States Census, in which they resided :- 



Hampton County, (2d Sup. Dist. 10th United States Census.) 



Lawton Toimiship, [E. D. 118 and 119) : Northern part rolling, remainder 

 level. Swamps on the Savannah river and other water courses, lor the 

 most part unreclaimed ; one-third, a stiff mulatto upland, with clay sub- 

 soil borders the swamp ; two-thirds, upland, a dark gray sandy loam, 

 underlaid by clay at the depth of eighteen to twenty inches. Crops under 

 good cultivation yield four hundred pounds lint cotton, twelve to twenty 

 bushels corn, thirt}^ bushels oats, fifteen to fifty bushels rice ; peanuts, 

 twenty-five to fifty busliels ; sugar cane sj^rup, two hundred gallons per 

 acre. Timber, best 3'ellow pine, cypress, white oak, ash and poplar. 

 Stock raising has been profitable, and might be greatly enlarged, there 

 being abundance of Bermuda grass, cane and swamp mast. Wages of 

 field labor, forty to fifty cents a day ; one-tenth performed by whites. A 

 large portion of the laborers rent lands, obtain supplies by giving a lien 



