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expense of Government. There was not a Freedmen's farm in the District that was not an actual burden to the tax payers of the Country, when the value of subsistence and the cost of Superintending was properly estimated. The Government has not been successful in farming, nor the majority of agents in charge of Freedmen's farms in adding to their reputations as practical agriculturists

I have compiled the following statistics from the best data I have been able to procure and trust they will be satisfactory. The report covers a period of four months to wit - June, July, August & September. I entered upon my duties as Asst Commissioner July 1st.

Within the limits of my district in the month preceding my arrival here the Government issued rations to