4.40
Interest and fee 8.04
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$77.41

1901.
Balance 1900 $13.93
Cash 21.28
Clothing 6.30
Feed 26.50
Provisions 21.36
Tools 3.50
Interest and fee 12.40
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$109.28

By November 30, 1901, they had paid $79.13 of their account. In 1900
they paid $180 towards their land and $29.60 in 1901.

All of these families are a little above the average. The income is
supplemented by the sale of chickens, eggs and occasionally butter. In
hard years when the crops are poor the men and older boys seek service
in the mines of North Alabama or on the railroads during the summer
before cotton picking begins, and again during the winter.

The outfit of the average farmer is very inexpensive and is somewhat as
follows:

Harness, $1.50; pony plow, $3.00; extra point, 25c $4.75

Sweepstock (a), 75c; 3 sweeps, 90c; scooter (b), 10c 1.75

2 hoes, 80c; blacksmith (yearly average), 50c 1.30
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Total $7.80

(a) A sweep is a form of cultivator used in cleaning grass and weeds from
the rows of cotton.

(b) A scooter or "bull-tongue" is a strip of iron used in opening the
furrow for the cotton seed.

A cow costs $25, pigs $2 to $2.50, wagon (seldom owned) $45. A mule now
costs from $100 to $150, but may be rented by the year for $20 or $25.
Owners claim there is no profit in letting them at this price and the
Negroes assert that if one dies the owner often claims that it had been
sold and proceeds to collect the value thereof. From either point of
view the plan seems to meet with but little favor.

The following table will give some idea of the condition and personal
property of a number of families in Lowndes County:

----------+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+---+---+----+---+----+
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L |
----------+----+----+----+----+----+---+-----+---+---+----+---+----+
Family 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |[9]0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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