West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 43
... set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task of feven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they then fall back to the second row ...
... set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task of feven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they then fall back to the second row ...
الصفحة 52
... set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due pro- portion of rum , and will fet the distill - house foul , by yielding bad lees ; for lees is a principal part of the mixture ; and there is a material difference * A name ...
... set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due pro- portion of rum , and will fet the distill - house foul , by yielding bad lees ; for lees is a principal part of the mixture ; and there is a material difference * A name ...
الصفحة 53
... set ; if there are no molasses , feventy per cent . of skimmings , and thirty per cent . of water will answer ; but if there are molaffes , fifty per cent . of skimmings , four per cent . mo- lasses , and forty - fix per cent . of water ...
... set ; if there are no molasses , feventy per cent . of skimmings , and thirty per cent . of water will answer ; but if there are molaffes , fifty per cent . of skimmings , four per cent . mo- lasses , and forty - fix per cent . of water ...
الصفحة 54
... set ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cifterns , every time when emptied , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set is too hot , it will ferment strongly for about twenty- four hours , and ...
... set ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cifterns , every time when emptied , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set is too hot , it will ferment strongly for about twenty- four hours , and ...
الصفحة 71
... set them right ; he should not support managers without merit , to ferve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employ- ment , whose merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ...
... set them right ; he should not support managers without merit , to ferve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employ- ment , whose merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ...
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