nothing.”  He added that beeves were to be killed for the negroes in July, August and September.  Hammond’s allowance to each working hand was a heaping peck of meal and three pounds of bacon or pickled pork every week.  In the winter, sweet potatoes were issued when preferred, at the rate of a bushel of them in lieu of the peck of meal; and fresh beef, mutton or pork, at increased weights, were to be substituted for the salt pork from time to time.  The ditchers and drivers were to have extra allowances in meat and molasses.  Furthermore, “Each ditcher receives every night, when ditching, a dram (jigger) consisting of two-thirds whiskey and one-third water, with as much asafoetida as it will absorb, and several strings of red peppers added in the barrel.  The dram is a large wine-glass full.  In cotton picking time when sickness begins to be prevalent, every field hand gets a dram in the morning before leaving for the field.  After a soaking rain all exposed to it get a dram before changing their clothes; also those exposed to the dust from the shelter and fan in corn shelling, on reaching the quarter at night; or anyone at any time required to keep watch in the night.  Drams are not given as rewards, but only as medicinal.  From the second hoeing, or early in May, every work hand who uses it gets an occasional allowance of tobacco, about one sixth of a pound, usually after some general operation, as a hoeing, plowing, etc.  This is continued until their crops are gathered, when they can provide for themselves.”  The families, furthermore, shared in the distribution of the plantation’s peanut crop every fall.  Each child was allowed one third as much meal and meat as was given to each field hand, and an abundance of vegetables to be cooked with their meat.  The cooking and feeding was to be done at the day nursery.  For breakfast they were to have hominy and milk and cold corn bread; for dinner, vegetable soup and dumplings or bread; and cold bread or potatoes were to be kept on hand for demands between meals.  They were also to have molasses once or twice a week.  Each child was provided with a pan and spoon in charge of the nurse.

Hammond’s clothing allowance was for each man in the fall two cotton shirts, a pair of woolen pants and a woolen jacket, and in the spring two cotton shirts and two pairs of cotton pants, with privilege of substitution when desired; for each woman six yards of woolen cloth and six yards of cotton cloth in the fall, six yards of light and six of heavy cotton cloth in the spring, with needles, thread and buttons on each occasion.  Each worker was to have a pair of stout shoes in the fall, and a heavy blanket every third year.  Children’s cloth allowances were proportionate and their mothers were required to dress them in clean clothes twice a week.