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 44
The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till their dung and urine heat and rot the trash ; but the uncommon heat of thofe penns is often injurious to the feet and limbs of the cattle ...
The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till their dung and urine heat and rot the trash ; but the uncommon heat of thofe penns is often injurious to the feet and limbs of the cattle ...
الصفحة 47
... which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or ... this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently conftructed .
... which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or ... this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently conftructed .
الصفحة 50
... fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed ...
... fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed ...
الصفحة 52
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten ...
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten ...
الصفحة 57
... which will coft about 3000l . and will require a good convenient grafs - penn to feed them ; finding the flaves in food , and fome fort of cloathing , and keeping up their number ftill as they die , as alfo that of cattle and mules ...
... which will coft about 3000l . and will require a good convenient grafs - penn to feed them ; finding the flaves in food , and fome fort of cloathing , and keeping up their number ftill as they die , as alfo that of cattle and mules ...
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