189/197 The largest crops that have ever been made, will he realized this year. The apprentices are generally willing to work on the estates on Saturday whenever their labor is needed. The females are very much disposed to abandon field labor. He has great difficulty sometimes in inducing them to take their hoes and go out to the field along with the men; it was the case particularly _with the mothers!_ This he regarded as a sore evil! 4. The free children he represented as being in a wretched condition. |