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in the row. One hand can tend 21 acres of cotton and 9 acres 

 of corn. On another place 21 hands made 139 bags, not quite 

 400 pounds each. A commercial bale of cotton is 400 pounds. 

 A South Carolina bag of cotton is 300 pounds. 



Col. Williams of Society Hill., S. C, owns 366 slaves, and a 

 large plantation and cotton factory and tannery, &c. He works 

 140 field hands, and plants 7 acres of corn per hand. The cot- 

 ton averaged, the previous year, upon 1,130 acres, 1,000 pounds 

 in the seed per acre ; and the corn, on 630 acres, 25 bushels per 

 acre. The cotton crop averaged six bales per hand. 



Cotton is planted in beds 4^ feet apart, and left to stand 12 to 

 18 inches apart in the rows. Corn is planted 4^ by 5 feet, two 

 stalks in a hill. 



The following was the cost of making 331,136 pounds of cot- 

 ton, packed in 796 bales, averaging 416 pounds each : 

 3,980 y'ds of Dundee bag'ng (5 y'ds to a bale) at 16c. $636 80 



3,184 pounds of rope at 6c. (4 pounds to a bale) 191 04 



Taxes on 254 plantation negroes at 76 cents 193 04 



Taxes on 4,200 acres of land, valued at $15 an acre. 70 00 



Wages of three overseers 900 00 



Doctor's bill and medicine, on contract at $1.25 a head, 317 50 



Iron for blacksmith shop 100 00 



Cloth from his own factory — 810 00 



200 pairs of shoes from his own factory, at 87^c 175 00 



1 00 oilcloth capotes 125 00 



20 woolen blankets, given one at each birth 25 00 



Calico dress and handkerchief, one to give to each 



woman 82 00 



Christmas presents, given in lieu of allowing slaves 



to grow a crop 175 00 



Annual average outlay for iron and wood work of 



carts and wagons 100 00 



50 sacks of salt.. 80 00 



1 ton of plaster _ _ 7 00 



100 barrels of lime. ._ 187 00 



Annual average expense of repairs of gins and belts. 80 00 



400 gallons of molasses 100 00 



3 kegs of tobacco 60 00 



2 barrels of flour 10 00 



Freight and commission, |c per pound on cotton 2,069 60 



Carried forward ' $6,791 48 



