Young, Isaac - 1874

State News
[We gather the following items from the Opelika Observer:]
Our old friend Isaac Young, of Clay county, let his plantation out to freedmen last year.  There were nearly thirty persons in the families, and between twelve and fifteen hands.-  They made six bales of cotton and have’nt <sic> corn enough to do them.

Mr. Young reserved some patches about the house containing a little over seven acres.  These were cultivated by his children, under his direction, having the use of a mule to do the plowing, and they produced seven bales of cotton.  Here is the argument- a little more intelligence to direct, less land, better cultivation, more fertilizing, larger crops, and more clear profit.-[Telladega Reporter].
~ Birmingham Iron Age, 12-Feb-1874, Page 2, Column 5