The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-02-21

SlOO ana femaieS SbO per annu1n,
and house, garden and firewood
10. Average cost of producing
merchantable cotton? Eight cents
per pound. or $40 per bale of 500
pounds.
II. Per cent. Of cost in raising,
picking and ginning cotton? Rails,
ing costs 764 per cent; and picking
1S4 per cent, and ginning, 5 per
cent.
-. Number and acreage Of farms
worked exclusively by whites, and
how they succeed? One-twentieth
Of the farms in this county
is worked exclusively by whites
farms averaging 80 acres each.
They succeed better than any other
class of farms.
13. Number and acreage Of farms
worked exclusively by colored
people, and how they succeed?
About one-twentieth Of the farms in
this county is worked exclusively
by colored people-farms averaging
25 acres each.
They succeed worse than any other
class of farmers, except in few
cases where they own the land.
IA. The number and acreage of
farms owned, controlled or directed
by whites, and worked by exclusively
with colored labor, or by white and
colored, and how they succeed in
each case? The number of farms
owned by whites is nincteen-twen-
tieths of all the farms in the coun-
ty.
The number of farms owned,
controlled or directed by whites.
and worked exclusively with colored
labor, is four-twentieths Of all the
farms in the county.
The number Of farms owned, con.
trolled or directed by whites, and
worked by white and colored labor,
is fourteen-twentieths Of all the
farms in the county.
The number of farms owned con-
trolled and worked by whites exclu.
sively, is one.tTentieth Of farms in
the county.
The farms worked exclusively
by colored labor, uuder the control
and direction of whites, succeed
moderately well only, because, in
the absence Of white managers, the
negroes fail, either from ignorance
or wilfully, to carry ont their in.
structions.
The farms worked by white and
colored succeed better than those
worked exclusively by colored labor,
because the whites are more inclin.
ed to carry out the directions of the
manager, and, from their superior
education and general good sense,
they have better knowledge of
how the farm work should be done
in the absence of the manager, to.
gether with their willingness to do
better and more work than the ordi-
nary colored laborer.
Farms worked by whites exclusive
ly? One-twenty of all farms; sue
ceed better, and make more money
than other farms of any description.
Planter farms or farms operated
by white proprietors, and worked
white and colored labor employed
by him, and paid by the wages
system or any otherS Number,
fourteen-twentieths OF all farms; av,
erage acreage to farm, $50 acres;
average acres in several crops :
Acres in cotton, 80; corn, 40; oats,
30; wheat 10; peas, 10;rye and bar
ley, 3; sweet potatoes, i; promis-
cuous, /. Total, $50. Fair aver
age yield per acre, with fair aver
age cultivation, on fair average land,
in fair average season: Cotton,
$50 pounds seed cotton; corn, II
bushels, oats, 20 bushels; wheat, s
bushels; peas, 6 bushels; sweet po-
tatoes, 60 bushels; barley, 40 BUSH
els; rye, 6 bushels; miscellaneous,
Tenant farms or farms let to col.
ored tenants, over whom the pro.
prietor has supervisory control?
Number Of such farms, four-twen.
tieths of all farms in the county;
average acreage to farm, so acres.
Average acreage Of several crops :
Acres in cotton, 25; corn. 8; oats,
5; wheat, 5; peas, 4; rye and barley,
/; sweet potatoes, I; promiscuous
0; total, so. Average prodnct of
tenant farms, with average surroun.
dings as above: Cotton, 400 pounds
seed cotton; corn, s bushels; oats.
II bushels; wheat, 6 bushels; peas.
5 bushels; sweet potatoes, 80 bush
els; barley 25 bushels; rye, 3 bush
els.
Is. The condition of colored far
mers as landowners and tenants!
Their condition as landowners is
reasonably good; condition as ten
ants bad.
Z 16. Progress, of colored farmers
in making and saving money and
acquiring land? Colored farmers
are not making money, are moi
making progress, are not acquiring
land nor saving money.
II. Number of foreign born i'm
migrants. their nationality, &C.:
There are 81, as follows: Germans
80; English, 10; Irish, 6; Pole, l
The average rate of wages paid
them is: Males, S120; females
$75 per year. Their condition i;
good, and in most cases they OWL
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