APPENDIX. oer

are a great many overseers who give their land 20 aid of any other kind than that of shifting the cattle from one per to another, on ¢he spot intended for planting, during three

or four months before it is ploughed or holed.”

Note.“ This, however, is Ay xo means sufficient on plan= tations that have been much worn and exhausted by cultivation; and, perhaps, there is no branch in the planting business Wherein attention and systematic arrangement, as saving both time and labour, are more necessary than in collecting and preparing /arge quantities of dung from the

sources and materials before described.”

PAGE“223:

«“ The young sprouts are at the same time cleared of weeds, and the dung which is spread round them, being covered with cane-trash, that its virtue may not be exhaled by

3

the sun, is found, at the end of three or four months, to

be soaked info and incorporated with the mould.”

PAGE 21g.

“ Such is the general system of preparing and manur- ing the land in Jamaica. I have been told that more attention is paid to this branch of husbandry in

some

ee pon iets FT Os

&