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Cost of the labor of a negro woman. 



Hire for the year, $12 00 



Food, 12 95 



Clothing, blanket, and shoes, 6 50 



Taxes, quarters, fuel, mill, nursing, &c. - - - - 7 19 



Add 20 per cent, as before, for superintendence, &c., - - 7 73 



Total yearly cost, $46 37 



Suppose lost time, 100 days, leaves working days 265, at 17^ cents for 

 ach. 



Nearly all the women who are usually hired out are wanted by persons 

 having few or no other slaves, as cooks, or for some other employment at 

 which they are more useful than at field labor— and their price is nearer 

 fifteen dollars in these cases. But when there is no demand for such pur- 

 poses, women for field labor will not bring more than twelve dollars. 



A boy of twelve or thirteen would hire for more than the foregoing 

 estimate of the hire of a woman, but would not lose half the time from 

 sickness and bad weather, and therefore may be supposed to cost the same 

 per day, or seventeen and a third cents. A girl of fourteen or fifteen years, 

 for similar reasons, may be put at the same price. 



Cost of the labor of a horse. 



First cost of a good work horse, $80 00— supposed to 



last five years at work, makes the yearly wear. 

 Interest for one year on $80 00—84 80— tax, 12 cents, 



20 bbls. of corn at $2 00-3,500 lbs. of fodder at 50 

 cents the hundred, ...... 



Add 10 per cent, for waste in keeping, . . . 



Interest on $63 25, for one year-, - - - - $3 79 



Share of yearly expense for corn-hous^, = . . 47 



4 26 



Total yearly cost, $88 43 



Lost time, 98 days, leaves 267 working days, at 33 cents nearly. 



A mule eats less corn than a horse, but more hay, and lives longer, and 

 may be considered as costing one-fifth less, or yearly cost, $70 00, and 

 daily, 26^ cents. 



A tumbrel for marling, will cost when new, S25 00 

 It will last two years, or (what is the same thing) if that sum will 



pay for all repairs, for two years, its wear per year, is - ^12 50 

 Interest on S25 00 for a year, 1 50 



Cost per year, 8 1 4 00 



And at 267 working days— cost per day five cents. 



In the estimate of the cost of horse labor, no charge is made for attend- 

 ance, because that is part of the labor of the driver, and forms part of 

 his expense. iVo charge is made for grazing, because enough corn and hay 



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