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The Season being unusually backward. The Corn and Tobacco Crops require Constant attention and labor, to get them out of the grass, but the employers as a general thing place no impediment in the way of the Freedmen attending the frequent public meetings that are being held in the County. In cases where they are behind hand in the crop, the Freedmen are required in case of absence to Supply their places in the crop with the exception of the time taken for Registering for that there is nothing required.

The wheat & oats have been harvested, and the yield has been very large. The prospect for a good crop of Corn and Tobacco is good, should there be no long continued drought.

In the matter of education of the Colored I have no change to report since my last except the establishment of a Sunday School at Clover with an attendance of about 125 I find a large number are being educated in the families of their employers.

Measures are being taken to form Temperance Societies in Various parts of the County, which promises, success, in all the assembleges I have been present at during the month. I have seen but two Cases of intoxication among the Freedmen, and I have never seen so little intemperance in any Community as there is among the Colored people of this County. I Can Safely say that during the eighteen months I have been in this County eighteen months I have been in this county I have not seen ten Colored people

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