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Mr George W. Smith, being duly sworn testifies as follows. my age is forty eight years, have been a farmer all my life, was born and raised where I now reside in Jersey settlement. An average crop of corn in Jersey settlement would be twenty bushels to an acre. Twenty acres of corn should be raised to the hand on farms where no cotton is raised, such hand would have ^[[insertion]] ample [[/insertion]] time to raise crops of wheat oats and potatoes aside from raising their corn, it would be worth $4.00 a month to board a negro child from five to ten years old, it would be worth about the same to support a child from one to five years old, taking into consideration the necessary attention it would of been worth seven dollars a month last year to have boarded negroes from ten years old and upwards, owing to the scarcity of provisions.  

My plantation adjoins Doct Holts. I saw Docts Holts negroes working last repeatadly and from what I saw of them they did not work very steady nor do very good work. Doct Holt raised no cotton last year.