As the negroes of the Mississippi Valley either immigrate from that valley and go in different directions and buy land, the planters of the Mississippi Valley send out to the older States and replace them with labor from those States.

A negro in the older States, probably, to make his support would have to cultivate 15 or 20 acres of land, whereas a negro in the Mississippi Valley can make his support on 8 or 10 acres of land.
Q.Will this result in the ownership of the alluvial lands being transferred to the negro?
-- A.

No, sir; because as he makes money he goes off.
Q.He is a Chinese immigrant ?--A.

I mean by "goes off" he does not go out of the State, but he goes to the hills.
Q.And to smaller ownerships ?--A.

To smaller ownerships.
Q.And the aim of the Southern planter is to accommodate this tendency of things to smaller rentings?
-- A.