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and trenching, to render it profitable, Properly pulve-

rized 2nd manured, it becomes very produédfive, and may be said to be inexhaustible”. PAGE 200.

Tt ig remarkable, however, that the same degree of ploughing or pulverization, which is absolutely necessary to render stiff and clayey lands productive, is here not only unnecessary but hurtful; for though this soil is deep, it is at the same time far from being heavy, and it is naturally dry. As, therefore too much exposure to the scorch- ing influence of a tropical sun destroys its fertility, the system ef husbandry on sugar plantations, in which this soul

abounds, is to depend chiefly on what are called ratoon

canes,”(or sprouts of the canes formerly planted)—these continue to be cut, and to produce sugar for some years: as they

decay they are replaced by fresh plants. By“this” method

the planter, instead of stocking“or digging up” This ratoons,

> suffers the stoles to continue in rround,*¢ instead of stocking, or digging up his ratoons, and Aoleing and

planting the land anew.”

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£6 Jn the cultivation of other lands(in Jamaica espe-

cially) the plough has been introduced of late years, and in

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