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 Edition, المجلد 8 |
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الصفحة 45
As the canes grow, they have joints or knots at every three or four inches distance
, at every one of which they have long blades, something like staggers ; still, as
they grow towards maturity, those blades wither and become burthensome to the
...
As the canes grow, they have joints or knots at every three or four inches distance
, at every one of which they have long blades, something like staggers ; still, as
they grow towards maturity, those blades wither and become burthensome to the
...
الصفحة 46
I fay, when all these, and many other matters, are not considered of and prepared
in time, if the canes are ripe, and dry weather ensues, they will turn red, or (as
they fay) get burnt; after which, though they must be cut to clear the field, they are
...
I fay, when all these, and many other matters, are not considered of and prepared
in time, if the canes are ripe, and dry weather ensues, they will turn red, or (as
they fay) get burnt; after which, though they must be cut to clear the field, they are
...
الصفحة 49
Some people may fay, that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to
perfection, boiling of sugar, and distillation of rum, &c. &c. are quite simple ; that
any man may get knowledge of these, without exposing his constitution to the ...
Some people may fay, that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to
perfection, boiling of sugar, and distillation of rum, &c. &c. are quite simple ; that
any man may get knowledge of these, without exposing his constitution to the ...
الصفحة 86
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overseers, most injurious to
proprietors in general ; that is, planting Indian corn, or peas, amongst the canes ;
it is very evident to the meanest capacity, that the richest foil will be impoverished
...
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overseers, most injurious to
proprietors in general ; that is, planting Indian corn, or peas, amongst the canes ;
it is very evident to the meanest capacity, that the richest foil will be impoverished
...
الصفحة 87
... Kingstown : On his return, finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes (for
corn has a luxurious stalk, and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation)
the corn was freed from weeds and caresully moulded, and the canes neglected.
... Kingstown : On his return, finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes (for
corn has a luxurious stalk, and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation)
the corn was freed from weeds and caresully moulded, and the canes neglected.
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| العنوان | 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 Edition, المجلد 8 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 Edition, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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