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and made a living. It was soon announced as a failure. That the Freedmen would not pick clean cotton, but would throw all and all in to make weight. A system of docking was commenced and by the time the dirt was all out of the cotton but cotton was left to weigh. An old and intelligent planter who has raised cotton for 27 years lost heavy by the war, and who is trying for labor, informs me that he gives his hands 75 cents per hundred pounds and boards them, and that they work to distraction, pick the cotton clean, and perform their part well. He never has had better work performed on his place and is convinced that no trouble will be found in getting the Freedmen to work if honorable inducements will be held out to them to labor. He informs me that some of his hands make three and four dollars per day, and that he has several children under 12 years of age that make from 50 to 75 cents for every day they work. He says that instead of the Freedmen