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 53
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which case there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual set ; if there are no molasses , seventy per cent . of skimmings ...
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which case there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual set ; if there are no molasses , seventy per cent . of skimmings ...
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 59
... and holed at every three or four feet distance , as soon as the seasons set in the grass is taken and planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land ...
... and holed at every three or four feet distance , as soon as the seasons set in the grass is taken and planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land ...
الصفحة 67
The first of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monsieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , moft noble and clever ) ; Likewise Mr. Randum , a foolish young ...
The first of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monsieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , moft noble and clever ) ; Likewise Mr. Randum , a foolish young ...
الصفحة 71
... and when they went wrong dia rect them and set them right ; he should not support managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own einployment , whose ...
... and when they went wrong dia rect them and set them right ; he should not support managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own einployment , whose ...
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