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sells at eight dollars to ten dollars, and rents at from two dollars to four 

 dollars an acre. 



Darlington County, (3d Sup. Dist. South Carolina.) 



Fair's Bay, (E. D. 48) : Lands low, level, interspersed with bays that 

 are very productive when reclaimed ; uplands, a fine light sandy loam of 

 a dark gray color. Subsoil, light sandy clay, underlaid by white clay- 

 Heavily timbered with pine and oak ; swamp growth, oak, poplar, walnut 

 and cypress. Crops, cotton, five hundred pounds to fifteen hundred pounds 

 seed cotton, eight bushels to fifteen bushels corn, fifteen bushels to thirty 

 bushels rice. Little attention paid to stock. Much of the land uncleared. 

 No demand to purchase land ; rents for from one dollar and fifty cents 

 to two dollars per acre. No prevailing disease; fifteen deaths in 1880 — 

 no three from same cause. Farm labor, thirty to fifty cents a day. Nearly 

 all the whites do field work. 



Hartsville, (E. D. 36) : One-half lands elevated, level. Soil, coarse gray 

 sandy loam. One foot to subsoil of yellow clay, underlaid by alternating 

 strata of sand and clay. The other half hilly, broken and sandy ; not 

 very productive. Growth, pine, oak and hickory. Crops, six to eight 

 hundred pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn, five to forty bushels small 

 grain per acre. Large beds of chalk occur. Black creek affords good 

 water power. Wages, fifty cents. Onedialf the field work done by 

 whites. Land sells for six dollars to twenty dollars an acre ; rents for 

 two dollars to four dollars. A^ery healthy. 



Tlmmonsvillc, {E. D. 49) : Soil, a stiff" mixture of sand and clay, with a 

 red clay or pipe clay subsoil at four inches to six inches depth, underlaid 

 by very stiff clay and gravel to the depth of the wells, ten feet to twenty 

 feet. Growth, pine, oak and dogwood. Crops, eight hundred to two 

 thousand pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn, ten to one hundred bush- 

 els oats, ten to fifty bushels rice per acre. Grapes do especially well and 

 a good deal of wine is made. Gee3e are raised in great numbers. Lake 

 Swamp creek, twenty feet wide, four feet deep, velocity three to four miles 

 an hour. One-half of the field work done by whites. No land for sale 

 price ten dollars to fifty dollars; rents for three dollars to six dollars an 

 acre. Very healthy. 



Florence, {E. D. 35) : Lands level, flat. Soil, dark sandy loam, four 

 inches to five inches to subsoil of red clay. Growth, pine and small oaks. 

 Crops, seven hundred pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn, twenty bushels 

 to thirty bushels oats per acre. Wages, fifty cents a day. No field work 

 done by whites. Improved lands sell at from ten dollars to twelve dollars 

 an acre. About half the lands are rented at two dollars and fifty cents 

 per acre. 



