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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers Rice, lbs. of Tobacco, lbs. of Ginned Cotton, bales of 400 lbs. each Wool, Ibs. of Peas and Beans, bushels of Irish Potatoes, bushels of Sweet Potatoes, bushels of Barley, bushels of Buckwheat, bush. of Value of Orchard Products, in doll's Wine, gallons of Value of Produce of Market Gardens Butter, Ibs. of Cheese, Ibs. of Hay, tons of Clover Seed, bushels of Grass Seeds, bushels of Hops, lbs. of Hemp Dew Rotted, tons of Water Rotted, tons of Other prepared Hemp Flax, lbs. of Flaxseed, bush. of Silk Cocoons, lbs. of Maple Sugar, lbs. of Cane Sugar, hinds. of mono lbs. Molasses, gallons of, and from what made Beeswax, lbs. of Honey, lbs. of Value of Homemade Manufactures Value of Animals slaughtered 2,000 So I 5 20 75 IO ~3 I5 I20 Census of I 860, Productions of Agriculture, Northeast Division of Franklin County, Va., pp. ~7-~8, Vi. ~ This and other reports indicating the nature of the Burroughs farming operation are analyzed and described in thorough detail in Bearss, Burroughs Plantation. It is clear from the census report that with only boy acres of improved land and seven slaves reported, it was a farm rather than a plantation in the general usage of the terms. Those products which Burroughs did not raise were usually not produced by his neighbors, though some had orchards and beehives and produced hay. The a,ooo pounds of tobacco represented the principal cash crop and showed the commercial character of the farm. The farm was of such 8