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tatoes per acre. Field work paid thirty cents to forty cents a day ; one- 

 third done by whites. Health good. 



Carmichael, (E. D. 88) : Lands elevated and level. Soil, a fine sand or 

 red clay loam, containing much vegetable mould, underlaid at two feet 

 or more by a very dark clay. Growth, pine, oak, hickory and dogwood, with 

 juniper and cypress in the swamps. Average crops, one thousand pounds 

 seed cotton, twelve bushels to fifteen bushels corn, fifteen bushels wheat, 

 thirty-five bushels oats, twenty-five bushels rice per acre. Grapes do un- 

 usually well. Field labor paid, thirty-five cents to fifty cents a day ; one- 

 third of it done by whites, a sturdy wide awake population of Scotch 

 descent. Locality very health}^ Some land for sale at two dollars to 

 thirty-five dollars an acre. Most of it rented to laborers at two dollars to 

 eight dollars an acre, or for one-third of the crop. 



Harlteesville, {E. D. 89) : ]\Iost of the land is elevated and level, some of 

 it, however, is low enough to require drainage. Three-fourths of the 

 soils are fine clay, with little vegetable matter, except in the bottoms ; 

 one-fourth are sandy soils, with a subsoil of yellow^ clay, mixed with 

 sand; it is the best 'adapted to corn and small grain; beneath the subsoils 

 clay is found to the depth of the wells, fifteen feet to twenty feet, where 

 water is found in quicksand. Growth, on uplands, pine and oak ; in the 

 swamps, poplar and cypress ; much timber is rafted down the Little Pee 

 Dee. Provision crops are neglected for cotton, and high prices for the 

 advancement of suplpies are paid. No fever, the locality is very healthy. 

 Price of lands, six dollars to forty dollars an acre. Farm labor paid, 

 thirty cents to fift}'^ cents a day ; one-half the field work done by whites. 



Marlboro County, (3d Sup. Dist., 10th United States Census.) 



Red Hill, {E. D. 110): Lands generally level or slightly rolling; rarely 

 hilly or broken. The cultivation of large bodies of rich river lands on 

 the Great Pee Dee has been abandoned, or they are rented to negro ox- 

 farmers. Some bay lands have been reclaimed. To the north, the up- 

 lands are a sandy loam, resting on dark clay. Growth, oak and hickory. 

 Crops, six to twelve hundred pounds seed cotton, ten to fifteen bushek. 

 corn, eight to forty bushels oats, fifteen to twenty-five bushels wheat. 

 Fruit very fine. Wages of farm labor, fifty cents to seventy-five cents a 

 day. One-eighth of field labor done by whites. The best land will com- 

 mand twenty-five dollars to thirty dollars ; average lands fifteen dollars, 

 and river bottoms two dollars and fifty cents per acre. Ordinary land 

 rents for one hundred pounds seed cotton an acre, or two four hundred 

 pound bales for a one-horse farm. Some fever on the river, elsewhere 

 remarkably healthy. 



