At Augusta in 1809, for example, cotton was ginned and packed in square bales of 350 pounds at a cost of $1.50 per hundredweight.[26] [Footnote 18: _Columbian Museum_ (Savannah, Ga.), April 26, 1796.] [Footnote 19: J.A.Turner, ed., _Cotton Planter's Manual_, p.

281.] [Footnote 20: Augusta, Ga., _Chronicle_, Dec.

10, 1796.] [Footnote 21: _Southern Sentinel_ (Augusta, Ga.), July 14, 1796.] [Footnote 22: _Ibid_., Feb.

7, 1797; Augusta _Chronicle_, June 10, 1797.] [Footnote 23: Augusta _Chronicle_, Dec.

13, 1800.] [Footnote 24: _Southern Sentinel_, April 23, 1795.] [Footnote 25: Augusta _Chronicle_, Jan.