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 such a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were strait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch with drought . Suppose a hill of ...
... holes must be dug in such a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were strait 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 spread 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 spread 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 sieve ; after the liquor is properly skimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the second copper , to which fire is also put , and then shifted from that to to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 ...
... holes like a sieve ; after the liquor is properly skimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the second copper , to which fire is also put , and then shifted from that to to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 ...
الصفحة 59
... hole , and in some 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 grass , and when it is properly ...
... hole , and in some 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 grass , and when it is properly ...
الصفحة 70
... he should visit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and surprize the ma- nager when he least expected his coming , to fee how how he passed the time , and cultivated the estate 70 MANNERS AND CUSTOM'S.
... he should visit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and surprize the ma- nager when he least expected his coming , to fee how how he passed the time , and cultivated the estate 70 MANNERS AND CUSTOM'S.
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