In harvest time some extra cradlers were employed, as this was a kind of work at which the slaves were not very skilful.

Payment was at the rate of about a dollar a day or a dollar for cutting four acres, which was the amount a skilled man could lay down in a day.

The men were also given three meals a day and a pint of spirits each.

They slept in the barns, with straw and a blanket for a bed.

With them worked the overseers, cutting, binding and setting up the sheaves in stools or shocks.
Laziness in his employees gave our Farmer a vast deal of unhappiness.