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Lands of the Slave and the Free

CHAPTER V
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The number of men employed on the farm is, six for six months, twelve for three months, and twenty-five for three months.

Ten horses and five yoke of oxen are kept for farm purposes.

The common waggon used weighs eight hundredweight, and holds fifty bushels.

Sometimes they are ten hundredweight, and hold one hundred and five bushels.
The wages of the farm servants are:--For those engaged by the year, 2l.10s.a month; for six months, 2l.18s.6d.a month; for three months, 3l.11s.a month--besides board and lodging, on the former of which they are not likely to find their bones peeping through their skin.

They have meat three times a day--pork five days, and mutton two days in the week--a capital pie at dinner; tea and sugar twice a day; milk _ad libitum_; vegetables twice a day; butter usually three times a day; no spirits nor beer are allowed.


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