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
... ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years . As the canes grow , they have joints or knots at every three or four inches diftance , at every one of which they have ...
... ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years . As the canes grow , they have joints or knots at every three or four inches diftance , at every one of which they have ...
الصفحة 47
... ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied ...
... ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied ...
الصفحة 50
... ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them in good order ; he fhould obferve the difpofitions ...
... ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them in good order ; he fhould obferve the difpofitions ...
الصفحة 59
... ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as foon as the feafons fet in the grafs is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and ...
... ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as foon as the feafons fet in the grafs is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and ...
الصفحة 68
... ground - nuts , will hardly pay freight ; My chinkapins , dry - fish , and herrings , I fear , Won't bring me firft - coft : O what brought me here ! All merchandize now is at such a low rate , That , alafs ! I can't think which way for ...
... ground - nuts , will hardly pay freight ; My chinkapins , dry - fish , and herrings , I fear , Won't bring me firft - coft : O what brought me here ! All merchandize now is at such a low rate , That , alafs ! I can't think which way for ...
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