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the grounds of these estimates, will not prevent true and valuable results 

 being derived from them. 



The following estimates were made in 1828, according to the prices of 

 that year. I shall make no alteration in any of the sums, because there is 

 no considerable difference at this time, (January 1832,) and the least altera- 

 tion would make it necessary to change the after calculations founded on 

 them. But no one estimate will suit for years of different prices. If any 

 one desires to know the value of labor when corn (for example) is higher 

 or lower, he must ascertain the difference in that item, and add or deduct, 

 so as to correct the error. 



Cost of the labor of a negro man in 1828. 



Hire for the year, payable at the end, 

 Food — \9\ bushels of corn at 40 cents. 



Add 10 per cent, for waste in keeping, 



Meat and fish, &c. 



Interest for one year on ^17 58, paid for food, 



Clothing — 6 yards coarse woollen cloth, at 50 cents, 

 1 2 yards cotton, for summer clothes and two 



shirts, at 12 cents. 

 Blanket at g 1 50, once in two years— yearly. 

 Shoes and mending. 



Taxes— State, 47 cents— county 47— poor 33— road, 



suppose 1 dollar, 2 27 



His share of expense of quarters, fuel, and 



sending to mill, 4 50 



Nursing when sick, (exclusive of medical aid,) 1 50 



8 27 



$72 09 

 Add 20 per cent, on the whole of the above for cost 

 of superintendence, waste, wanton damage 

 to stock, tools, &c.. and thefts, ' 14 41 



Total expense per year, $86 50 



Time lost — Sundays and holidays, 58 days 

 Bad weather and half 



holidays, suppose 20 

 Sickness, suppose 10 



Making in all 88 



From 365, deduct 88, leaves 277 working days ; which makes the cost 

 of each working day 3 1 1 cents. 



The hire was fixed at the average price obtained that year for ten or 

 twelve young men hired out at the highest bids, for field labor. According 

 to the established custom, all the expenses of medical attendance, and loss 

 of time from the death of a slave occurring when he is hired, are paid, or 

 deducted from the hire by the owner, and therefore are omitted in this es- 

 timate. By supposing the slave to be hired by his employer, instead of 

 being owned, the calculation is made more simple, and therefore more correct. 



