THE PIEDMONT REGION. 



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Cost of each Item of Labor and Material expended in tlm Cidtivation of an 



Acre of Cotton. 



ITEMS. 



llenL 



Fencing, repairs interest on. 



Knocking stalks 



Pulling and burning stalks.... 



Other cleaning up 



Listing 



Beddini with hoes 



Breaking up 



Harrowing 



Barring old beds 



Splitting middles 



Reversing 



Laying ofT 



Commercial Manures 



Home-made Manures 



Applying manures 



Bedding up 



Splitting middles 



Knocking off beds 



Planting, opening 



Planting, dropping 



Planting, covering 



Replanting '. 



Seed 



Thinning 



Three phiwings. 



Three hoeinjrs 



Picking 



Hauling to gin 



Ginning 



Management 



Wear and tear of tools 



Bagging and ties 



Total 



$3 50 



25 

 50 

 10 



1 00 



Cost per pound, deducting cotton seed at 12 cents 

 per bushel 



Profit per acre, cotton 10 cts. per pound, seed 12 

 cts. per bushel, 



Profit, rent excluded from cost.. 



2 00 



2 50 



50 



1 00 



30 



15 



30 



05 



30 



50 



1 00 



1 50 



C 15 



1 00 



■5 33 



50 



1 00 



1 00 



29 (i9 



06 



13 21 



10 17 



II. 



$9 90 



813 33 



25 



1 00 



25 

 4 00 



20 

 25 

 25 



40 

 20 

 20 



30 



50' 

 1 00 

 4 80 



1 60 



1 00 



III. 



25 



1 00 



25 

 4 50 

 2 00 

 15 

 75 

 25 



25 



30 

 50 

 1 50 

 1 50 

 6 00 

 10 

 1 78 



1 00 



IV. 



S2 60 



2) 85' 35 66 



05 f 



IS 9fi 



7 00 



V. 



34 00 



40 



10 



1 00 



18 

 3 00 

 1 50 



10 



as 



17 



16 

 10 

 16 



25 



40 



1 00 



1 20 



5 Oil 



1 60 



1 00 

 85 



20 &5 



05 i 



14 as 



30 



1 00 



25 



4 00 



1 00 



15 



75 



25 



40 



1 33 



1 20 



4 00 



200 

 22 



22 5-3 



9 51 



26 m> 20 33| 16 9Sl 13 51 



VI. 



$3 00 



25 

 1 00 



25 



50 

 10 



25 



20 



40 



1 50 



1 00 



3 00 



1 00 



99 



50 



45 



067-10 



6 2t 



9 2» 



VII. 



83 00 



20 



ATerage. 



1 00 



25 

 3 00 

 1 00 



50 



75 



15 



101 

 I 

 10 



10 



12H 



50 



60 

 1 20 

 3 00 



25 



90 



50 



17 97 



1-10 



3 71 



6 71 



So 61 



10 

 18 

 07 

 U 



93 



zo 



3 07 



1 14 



23 



66 



18 



39 



1 00 



1 23 



4 66 



a5 



1 74 



17 



22 



80 



23 78 



06 7-10 



10 01 

 16 62 



I. R. C. Carlisle & J. S. Rennick, Newberry, yield 400 pounds lint Cotton, 825 pounds cotton seed. 



II. Jno. C. Fiennikeu, Chester, yield 390 pounds lint Cotton, 804 pounds cotton seed. 

 HI. VV. L. Donaldson. Greenvide, yield 400 pounds lint Cotton. 800 pounds cott.on seed. 



IV. G. H. McMaster. Fairfield, yield 330 pounds lint Cotton, 670 pounds cotton seed. 



V. James Pagan, Winnsboro, yield 300 pounds lint Cotton, 620 pounds cotton seed. 

 Vr. W. R. Bradley, Abbeville, yield lOS pounds lint Cottcm 400 pounds cotton seed. 

 VII. .Ino. A. Summer, Lexinoion. yield 20) pounds lint Co ton, 420 pounds cotton seed. 

 Average, 318 pounds lint Cotton, 64S pounds cotton seed. 



