APPENDIX. 249. 



in some few cases to great advantage; but it is not every 

 soil or situation that will admit the use of the plough,, 

 some lands being much too stoney and others too steep. 

 And I am sorry I have occasion to remark, that a practice 

 commonly prevails in Jamaica, on properties where this 

 auxiliary is used, which would exhaust the finest land in the 

 world. It is that of ploughing, then cross ploughing, round 

 ridging, and harrowing the same lands from year to year , or at 

 least every other year, without affording manure. Accordingly 

 it is found, that this method is utterly destruttive of the ra- 

 toon, or second growth, and altogether ruinous. It is in- 

 deed astonishing, that any planter of common reading - 

 or observation, should be passive under so pernicious a system" 



PAGE 215. 



" Hitherto I have saicV nothing of a very important 

 branch in the sugar-cane planting : I mean the method 

 of manuring the lands. The necessity of giving even the 

 best ^//occasional assistance, is universally admitted '; and the 

 usual way of doing it in the West Indies, is now to be 

 described. 



" The manure generally used, is a compost, formed, 

 "First, Of the coal and vegetable ashes drawn from 

 the fires of the boiling-house and still-house. 



x i "Secondly, 



