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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 45
... crop is taken off there springs up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured ...
... crop is taken off there springs up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured ...
الصفحة 46
... crop ; the cop- pers and stills may want repairing or fetting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cifterns ... crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many in , duftrious experienced ...
... crop ; the cop- pers and stills may want repairing or fetting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cifterns ... crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many in , duftrious experienced ...
الصفحة 48
... crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green . In the boiling - house there are four or five cop- pers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the ...
... crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green . In the boiling - house there are four or five cop- pers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the ...
الصفحة 50
... crop time ftand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever ...
... crop time ftand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever ...
الصفحة 51
... crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the ...
... crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the ...
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