This, of course, demoralized the country to a very great extent, and it has only been in the past few years the negro laborers have realized their true condition and gone to work with a view of making a support for themselves and families.

There is yet much room for improvement, but they will improve just as they gain experience and become self-reliant.
Considering their condition after emancipation and the evil influences to which they have been subjected, even the small advancement they have made seems surprising.
Q.2.Under what systems are the laborers in your section employed?
-- A.

There are three methods: we hire for wages, for a part of the crop, or we rent.
Q.3.When hired for wages what is paid?
-- A.

When hired by the month we pay unskilled field hands from $10 to $20 per month and board.

When hired by the day, for unskilled laborers, from 75 cents to $1.