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corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, sweet potatoes, and Irish pota- 

 toes. Fruits and vegetables do well. 



AvER.VGE Product per Acre. — Cotton averages 400 

 pounds per acre ; corn, 2h barrels ; wheat, 5^ bushels. Two 

 thousand bags of cotton are annually produced. 



Average Price of Grain, Provisions, Labour. — Corn 

 averages 61 ~5 per bushel ; wheat, 75 cents ; butter, 12^ cents 

 per pound ; eggs, 6 cents per dozen ; pork, 4 cents per pound ; 

 bacon, 7 cents ; beef, 2^ ; turkeys, 75 cents per pair ; fowls 

 20 cents do. ; geese, 50 cents do. ; tallow, 8 cents per pound ; 

 wax, 20 do. Board at hotels, 88 per month. White men hire 

 at f 8 per month ; negro men, at 860 per annum ; negro women, 

 at 845 do. 



Roads, Bridges, Ferries. — The market roads are kept in 

 good order. There is only one bridge of importance in this 

 county. Ferries, eight. 



Mills, Distilleries. — Saw-mills 13 ; grist-mills 14 ; flour- 

 mills 3 ; and a number of small distilleries. 



Value of Town Lots, &c. — The value of town lots is 

 82,150. Value of stock in trade, 811,000. Money at interest, 

 844,790. 



Mineral Springs. — Madison Springs, 23 miles N. W. of 

 Athens. The water is impregnated with iron, and efficacious 

 in the cure of several diseases, and is much resorted to in the 

 summer. 



Miscellaneous. — Austin Dabney. — In the beginning of 

 the revolutionary conflict, a man by the name of Aycock 

 removed to Wilkes county, having in his possession a mulatto 

 boy who passed for and was treated as his slave. Aycock 

 was not the bravest of men, and when called upon to do mili- 

 tia service manifested much uneasiness, and did his duty so 

 badly, that his Captain consented to exchange him for his mu- 

 latto boy, then eighteen years of age — a stout, hardy youth — 

 upon Aycock's acknowledging that he was the son of a white 

 woman, and consequently free. The boy had been called 

 Austin, to which the Captain added Dabney. 



Dabney proved himself a good soldier. In many a skirmish 

 with the British and tories, he acted a conspicuous part. He 

 was with Col. Elijah Clarke in the battle of Kettle Creek, and 



