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 |
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الصفحة 45
After the first crop is taken off there springs up a second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
After the first crop is taken off there springs up a second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
الصفحة 46
attorney for suffering it , wood for fire and other necessaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats ...
attorney for suffering it , wood for fire and other necessaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats ...
الصفحة 48
... only fuel for boiling the sugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his crashhouses full , so that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green .
... only fuel for boiling the sugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his crashhouses full , so that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green .
الصفحة 50
... he should observe the dispositions of the Naves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality ...
... he should observe the dispositions of the Naves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality ...
الصفحة 51
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overseers during crop are requisite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overseers during crop are requisite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
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