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Crops
at this time, but the yield will be materially and seriously affected for want of food for laborers and animals, without which it is impossible to make a crop. The Freedpeople are generally working very well and but few complaints are made against them by their Employers."

Darlington, Bureau Sub District of
Bvt. Lieut. Colonel, R.F. Frank, Sub Asst. Comm.

Condition of People

Mr George E. Pingree, Agent at Darlington, reports;
"I have no outrages, and indeed nothing whatever of any special importance to communicate. As a general thing, people of all classes and colors are working better than ever before since the close of the War. The Corps are cleaner, better attended to, and give promise of better yield than ever before, (at this season of the year,) since I have been on duty in the Bureau. Both races seem to begin to realize that industry and economy are absolutely essential if they expect to prosper. More kindly feelings are being developed between the whites and blacks, and both begin to see that they now are, and in the future are likely to be mutually dependent upon each other. 

Crops
Large crops of corn, and small crops of cotton have been planted and there is reason to hope that corn enough will be made to last the Planters through the year 1819. There are few planters in this section