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have been so flattering as at the present time.-

A very much greater area of corn and wheat is in cultivation than before known in the State and more general attention is given this year to the raising of stock than heretofore.

The advantage of contracts for stipulated money wages is recognized by both employers and laborers as having been proved by former experience, but the want of ready money renders a general system of contracts of this nature impracticable at the present time although a far greater proportion of them are for money wages than in former years, the average price of first class field hands being about ten dollars per month and found with rations, quarters &c; other contracts being for one half of the crop and furnish themselves or for one third of the crop and everything furnished.- Contracts on share differ from those of last year to a great extent in this;- that last year employers worked large numbers of hands