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"State the kind of crops caused and the conductor of the same: whether the freedpeople work for monthly wages or a portion of the crop, and the customary amount of either.
Corn and cotton are the crops chiefly raised, the corn crop is abundant and the prospect for good cotton crop is good. Very few of the freepeople work for monthly wages. They work for a portion the customary amount being when the planter furnishes everything necessary to raise a drop, except the provisions, they receive half of the crop where the planter furnishes the provisions they receive one third of the crop and when the freedman rents land he pays the owner one third of the corn and one fourth of the cotton raised.