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
... them tenderly , and so on from time to time until all the bank is level to their
roots ; after which they are weeded occasionally until they grow six or seven feet
high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting .
... them tenderly , and so on from time to time until all the bank is level to their
roots ; after which they are weeded occasionally until they grow six or seven feet
high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting .
الصفحة 59
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy deserts or mountains ; the method of
planting it is as follows : - The ground being ... set in the grass is taken and
planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and
moulded .
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy deserts or mountains ; the method of
planting it is as follows : - The ground being ... set in the grass is taken and
planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and
moulded .
الصفحة 64
... live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's son from Glasgow , or
Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a
few years afterwards to make a pretty independence ; or if he enters into the
planting ...
... live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's son from Glasgow , or
Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a
few years afterwards to make a pretty independence ; or if he enters into the
planting ...
الصفحة 80
... will be a vain attempt indeed for him to persevere in the planting line
afterwards . The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are
thousands of circumstances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer
should be active and ...
... will be a vain attempt indeed for him to persevere in the planting line
afterwards . The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are
thousands of circumstances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer
should be active and ...
الصفحة 86
... and yet to support tolerable good characters , because their villainy was not
detected . 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 ...
... and yet to support tolerable good characters , because their villainy was not
detected . 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 ...
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