Rails to be split when I may say. Each cropper to clean out every ditch in his crop, and where a ditch runs between two croppers, the cleaning out of that ditch is to be divided equally between them. The cleaning out of all ditches must be done by the first of October. The rails must be split and the fence repaired before corn is planted. Each cropper must keep in good repair all bridges in his crop or over ditches that he has to clean out and when a bridge needs repairing that is outside of all their crops, then any one that I call on must repair it.
Fence jams to be done as ditch banks.
If any cotton is planted on the land outside of the plantation fence, I am to have three-fourths of all the cotton made in those patches, that is to say, no cotton must be planted by croppers in their home patches. All croppers must clean out stable and fill them with straw, and haul straw in front of stable whenever I direct. All the cotton must be manured, and enough fertilizer must be brought to manure each crop highly, the croppers to pay for one-half of all manure bought, the quantity to be purchased for each crop must be left to me. No cropper is to work off the plantation when there is any work to be done on the land he has rented, or when his work is needed by me or other croppers. Road field is to be planted from the very edge of the ditch to the fence, and all the land to be planted close up to the ditches and fences.