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 46
... cisterns , may be in the same predicament . I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not con- sidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get ...
... cisterns , may be in the same predicament . I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not con- sidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get ...
الصفحة 52
... cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and molaffes are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to have them all scoured well with lime and hot water , to have trash burnt in them , and scalded and washed ...
... cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and molaffes are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to have them all scoured well with lime and hot water , to have trash burnt in them , and scalded and washed ...
الصفحة 53
... cistern for that purpose , from which they are pumped with a copper pump into a large cooler ; when they cool and settle they are then mixed with the sweets , and serve as yest or balm in haftening a fermentation . Eight per cent . of ...
... cistern for that purpose , from which they are pumped with a copper pump into a large cooler ; when they cool and settle they are then mixed with the sweets , and serve as yest or balm in haftening a fermentation . Eight per cent . of ...
الصفحة 54
... cistern washed well ; for the lees of any bad charge , as I have already mentioned , will , though set ever so pure and cool , spoil any other mixture they are put to ; this I have learned from experience . I have always found that cisterns ...
... cistern washed well ; for the lees of any bad charge , as I have already mentioned , will , though set ever so pure and cool , spoil any other mixture they are put to ; this I have learned from experience . I have always found that cisterns ...
الصفحة 55
... cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an hundred equal parts , and marked so on the rod ; then if molasses be thrown into a cistern until it is eight of ...
... cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an hundred equal parts , and marked so on the rod ; then if molasses be thrown into a cistern until it is eight of ...
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