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
... holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch with drought . Suppose a hill of ...
... holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch with drought . Suppose a hill of ...
الصفحة 44
... holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultiva- tion , manure and labour , than others . The dung being fpread in the holes , the canes are laid flat upon the fame , two in a row , and co- vered lightly with part of the bank . If ...
... holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultiva- tion , manure and labour , than others . The dung being fpread in the holes , the canes are laid flat upon the fame , two in a row , and co- vered lightly with part of the bank . If ...
الصفحة 48
... holes like a fieve ; after the liquor is properly fkimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the fecond copper , to which fire is alfo put , and then fhifted from that to to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 ...
... holes like a fieve ; after the liquor is properly fkimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the fecond copper , to which fire is alfo put , and then fhifted from that to to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 ...
الصفحة 59
... hole , and in fome , weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grafs , and when it is properly ...
... hole , and in fome , weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grafs , and when it is properly ...
الصفحة 70
... he fhould vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the ma- nager when he leaft expected his coming , to fee how 3 how he paffed the time , and cultivated the 70 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... he fhould vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the ma- nager when he leaft expected his coming , to fee how 3 how he paffed the time , and cultivated the 70 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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