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 48
... only fuel for boiling the sugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , so 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 sugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , so 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 53
... is supposed to be equal to one gallon of molasses ; I always found that fourteen gallons of sweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though some distillers use more , and some less .
... is supposed to be equal to one gallon of molasses ; I always found that fourteen gallons of sweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though some distillers use more , and some less .
الصفحة 56
... the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - seven , or twenty - eight . Those who wish to have pure good rum for their own use , ( such as managers ...
... the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - seven , or twenty - eight . Those who wish to have pure good rum for their own use , ( such as managers ...
الصفحة 74
Some attornies write for larger quantities of stores than is necessary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep stores , and take every opportunity of supplying the estates in their care with every article at an hundred ...
Some attornies write for larger quantities of stores than is necessary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep stores , and take every opportunity of supplying the estates in their care with every article at an hundred ...
الصفحة 86
I knew many overseers who accumulated very rapidly , large properties by retailing rum and stock for the use of the proprietors , and yet to support tolerable good characters , because their villainy was not detected .
I knew many overseers who accumulated very rapidly , large properties by retailing rum and stock for the use of the proprietors , and yet to support tolerable good characters , because their villainy was not detected .
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