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attached for which they pay from 30 00 to 45 00 a year thinking they can support their families easier by their day labor but the farmers say they can not run the risk of laying out a crop and depend upon day labor to work it and they complain bitterly at not being able to employ labor that they require, by the year. My advice to the Freedmen has been to engage by the year where fair wages and good treatment are offered and delay their housekeeping schemes till they have acquired more means especially as the whites have informed me they shall only raise crops proportionate to the amount of labor they are able to secure for the year.

There is a large demand for labor in both of the counties of Madison and Greene and there is not a Freedman in either county who is able to work that need be unemployed and at fair wages. Some of the largest farmers of both counties express

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