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are a great many overseers who give their land no aid of 

 any other kind than that of shifting the cattle from one pen 

 to another, on the spot intended for planting, during three 

 or four months before it is ploughed or holed." 



Note. " This, however, is by no 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 large quantities of dung from the 

 sources and materials before described." 



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" The young sprouts are at the same time cleared of 

 weeds, and rhe dung which is spread round them, being 

 covered with cane trash^ that its virtue may not be exhaled by 

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

 be soaked into and incorporated with the mould." 



4. 



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 



