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under the "find themselves" arrangement the planter having confidence in his hands lets them use their credit unwisely early in the year, he finds after four or five months that at that early date the hands have obtained enough to take all their share when the crops is made and he stops supplies - off go the hands - in violation of their contract and the planter rushes to the Bureau to send them back. One planter, trusting to the wisdom of his head freedman, gave him for 6 hands - 750 lbs of bacon (giving it to him in large quantities, at one time 498 lbs in a lot) The hands had free swing at it and it lasted them a little over four months. This with other articles consumed the value of their share of the crop before July first- supplies of meat were stopped & off went the hands. I had hard work to satisfy both parties & get the work to go on. 

I presume you know all these things, yet I write them as part of the Report.- The adjustment of the disputes growing out of such matters are horribly vexatious & it is hard to do fairly by both.  As a whole however the County is quiet & the majority of the employers & employees are doing fairly by each other, the troubles mentioned can only be prevented by the payment of money wages-

With regard to temperance, as ordered by Cir.14. I would report that whilst there are no Societies, that I know of, in

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