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probable crops for the coming season - character & quality - specifying the locality - kind of crops generally produced & quantity per acre - with time of planting & gathering in given counties - and the facilities afforded in their production - & transportation to market.

The disposition of the freedmen to labor in various localities - feeling of their former owners and white residents generally towards them, usual contracts, hirers, and proportion of crops between owners of land & laborers.

If any facilities for manufacturing.  If so - where - & the mineral & other resources of the State - whether capital can be used to advantage in trade or planting.

Be pleased to designate some one in your district who will be fair in distributing garden & flower seeds - which will be sent.

By complying with my request 
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