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on the growing crops to the country merchants, and Avork most of the 

 time on their own account. Land sells from two dollars to ten dollars 

 per acre ; rents for one-fourth of the crop, or one dollar to two dollars in 

 money. Health good, except mild type of malarial fever in low places. 

 Pecples' Township, {E. D. 120): One-fourth of the land in swamps. The 

 uplands slightly rolling ; soil coarse and fine sandy loam, gray to brown and 

 black in color. Subsoil yellowish red, blue and brown clay, containing brown 

 pebbles, underlaid by gravel and quicksand at twelve to twenty feet, in 

 which water is found. Considerable business in collecting turpentine, 

 getting timber and shingles and sawing lumber. Little attention paid to 

 stock. Wages for field work, eight dollars per month ; one-half field 

 labor performed by whites. At Pondtown there is a large number of 

 white farmers owning small tracts of lands, doing all their own work and 

 working out for wages, Avho are prosperous and excellent laborers, free 

 from debt. Land rents for two dollars an acre. Malarial fever in the 

 swamps, otherwise healthy. 



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



Bull Pond, (E. D. 20) : Gray pine lands, generally level, a fine sandy 

 loam with clay subsoil. Growth, pine, oak and hickory. Little attention 

 paid to stock. Wages, forty cents per day. Five per cent, of field labor 

 performed by whites. No land in the market; one-half is rented for 

 eighty pounds of seed cotton per acre. Yield, about one bale to the three 

 acres, rented land badly cultivated, reduces the general average. 



Allendale, (E. D. 25) : " Light clay lands," rather elevated and rolling. 

 Soil, a light clay loam, gray and yellow in color, underlaid by clays of 

 various hue, from red to purple, also sandy subsoil. Growth, pine, oak, 

 hickory, dogwood, maple, poplar, ash, black walnut, cypress. Marl occurs 

 and is available. Two streams, twenty and forty feet wide, respectively, 

 with velocity of three to four miles an hour, furnish water powers. Little 

 attention paid to stock. It might be profitably raised. Wages, forty to 

 fifty cents a da3^ One-tenth of field labor performed by whites. No 

 lands in the market. No fevers except in the river bottoms. 



Bennett Springs, {E. D. 26) : Land level. Soil, sandy subsoil, sometimes 

 red clay and sometimes red sand. Growth, pine, oak and hickory on the 

 uplands ; usual growth of the Savannah river swamps on that stream. 

 Crops, seven hundred and fifty pounds of seed cotton, ten bushels corn, 

 twenty-five bushels rice, seventy-five bushels peanuts per acre. Some 

 business done in shingles, staves and turpentine. Stock raising might be 

 made profitable. Six gins and grist mills driven by water power, not 

 more than one-fifth of which is utilized. No prevailing diseases. No 



