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 42
Was I to treat largely of the cultivation of the lands , establishing of plantations and farms , making fugar and rum , & c . it would of itself make a volume ; but as that is not my plan , I shall give you a sketch of each .
Was I to treat largely of the cultivation of the lands , establishing of plantations and farms , making fugar and rum , & c . it would of itself make a volume ; but as that is not my plan , I shall give you a sketch of each .
الصفحة 46
Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw ...
Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw ...
الصفحة 48
... only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo 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 fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo 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 49
When liquor gets too much . boiling , or too much temper , it hardens the molaffes in the fugar , and will be black in the coolers and hogfheads ; nor will it cure properly ; i . e . the molaffes won't drain from it .
When liquor gets too much . boiling , or too much temper , it hardens the molaffes in the fugar , and will be black in the coolers and hogfheads ; nor will it cure properly ; i . e . the molaffes won't drain from it .
الصفحة 56
Porter cafks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me obferve the vaft expence which ...
Porter cafks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me obferve the vaft expence which ...
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