Excerpt from Southern Planter, Vol. 19: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, April 1859An old negro horizontaler lays off the' rows, and attends to one plantation where there are between six and seven hundred acres under the plumb, and manages it astonishingly well for a man of his under: standing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.