104 THE PIEDMONT REGION. 



Abstract of reports of township correspondents in the Piedmont Region 

 of South Carohna : 



Abbeville County. 



Cokesbury Township {E. D. 12): Lands liilly and broken, light, gray, 

 gravelly and sandy soils, six inches to eight inches to subsoil of yellow, 

 sometimes of dark red cla3^ Streaks of red clay and mulatto soils traverse 

 these sandy soils. Underlying the subsoil is rotten sandstones, soapstone, 

 tough clay, and rotten mica slate. Growth, oak, hickory and pine, gen- 

 erally small. Lands occasionally change hands at seven dollars to ten 

 dollars an acre. Field labor is paid fifty cents a day, one-fourth to one- 

 third of it performed by whites. 



Doncddsville ToiLmsliip{E.D. 11): Lands level, soils fine, light, gray, sandy 

 loam, with some clay loam ; subsoil red and yellow clay, underlaid by 

 solid clay. Growth, oak, hickory, walnut, poplar and pine. Crops, corn, 

 ten bushels ; wheat, eight bushels ; oats, fifteen bushels ; barley, fifteen 

 bushels; potatoes, thirty bushels; seed cotton, six hundred pounds to 

 one thousand pounds per acre. Lands sell for three dollars to ten dollars 

 an acre. Uplands rent for one-fourth, bottoms for one-third of the crops. 

 A good deal is rented for four hundred pounds to eight hundred pounds 

 of lint cotton for a one-horse farm. Quarries of building rock are worked. 

 Traces of gold occur. Lime rock is said to be found. Large w^ater- 

 powers on Saluda river. No attention is paid to stock, which might be 

 made profitable. No prevailing diseases. Field labor is j^aid forty to 

 fifty cents a day, w^ith board ; nearly one-half of it is performed by whites. 



Greenwood Township, {E. D. 13) : Surface level and rolling.* Soils, fine 

 gray, sandy loam and rich clay loam ; subsoil, red clay. Growth, oak, 

 hickory and pine. Some land for sale at three dollars to ten dollars an 

 acre. Average crop, six hundred pounds to seven hundred pounds seed 

 cotton per acre. Lucerne, clover and millet do w^ell. Summer pasturage 

 abundant. Sheep kept during the winter on cotton seed and turnips, at 

 a cost of thirty cents a head. Attention is being much directed to stock 

 raising since the abolition of the fence law. Field labor paid fifty cents 

 to seventy-five cents a day ; one-fourth is performed b}'' w^hites. 



Smithmlle Township {E. D. 16) : Lands elevated and rolling. Soil, a fine, 

 gray, sandy loam, and a red clay loam, with subsoil of clay resting on 

 clay or a fine white earth, resembling chalk. Growth, oak, hickory and 

 pine, wdth wild clover and various grasses. Crops, six hundred pounds 

 seed cotton ; ten bushels corn on uplands and twenty-five to thirty bush- 

 els on bottoms. Lands sell from three dollars to ten dollars per acre. 

 Wages of farm labor, fifty cents a day to one dollar and fifty cents and 

 two dollars during harvest; one-fourth performed by whites. 



