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 49
c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his constitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how ...
c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his constitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how ...
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 ...
الصفحة 53
... fifty per cent . of skimmings , four per cent . molasses , and forty - six per cent . of water will answer vėry well ; the mixture always should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be ...
... fifty per cent . of skimmings , four per cent . molasses , and forty - six per cent . of water will answer vėry well ; the mixture always should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be ...
الصفحة 54
care cannot be taken to have the skimmings and lees pure and cool when set ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns , every time when empried , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set ...
care cannot be taken to have the skimmings and lees pure and cool when set ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns , every time when empried , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set ...
الصفحة 56
Jamaica - rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly sinks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it ...
Jamaica - rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly sinks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it ...
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