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be more grain and less cotton planted this year than last and should crops not be injured the greatest abundance will be realized. The freedmen still object to making contracts, (written) for labor. the prefer parole contracts written contracts have to them an imaginary bearing of servitude and they carefully avoid them.

H. W. Barr. Agent for the counties of Cheatham and Robertson Tenn. reports April 30th as follows.

The freedmen are doing as well as could be expected working and sticking to their contracts with very few exceptions. I hear no complaints from either side.

J. K. Nelson. Agent for the counties of Rutherford and Cannon. Report April 30th 1867.
Affairs for the past month have been remarkably quiet. No outrages reported. 

I have recorded and approved Twenty three contracts between Freedmen and their employers this month. Most of them were for a fraction of the crop and a small number for wages.

The colored people here are growing