AGRICULTURE IN 1829. 259 
Generally speaking, the creoles of an estate are raised 
more by the attention of the whites than of their own 
‘parents, and the most constant and unwearied attention 
is necessary to prevent the most pernicious praétices of 
the mothers, even on the persons of their own infants, 
inoculation for Yaws or Leprosy, creating sores, and 
other disgusting tricks, being pra€tised by the women in 
order that they may be excused from their daily labour 
to attend the child, There is scarcely an instance where 
gangs have increased or kept up their numbers, however 
favorably constituted, without the intervention of re- 
wards to the parents for raising their offspring, united to 
the extraordinary cares of ahumane Manager. Every day 
must he see the creoles drawn up under the care of their 
proper nurses—with clean skins, and feet free from 
chigoes. A mess must be regularly made for them ex- 
clusively, of nutritous diet. They must by no means be 
allowed to ramble about the negro yard, but must be 
kept in a separate building or creole house, within a very 
short distance of the Managers dwelling, so as to be con- 
stantly under his eye. At proper seasons they must be 
physicked as they require it, to destroy the intestinal 
worms, with which they are most peculiarly infested. 
And the Kitchen Offal should be distributed to them | 
with a generous hand. Those from 5 to Io years of age 
should be colleéted into a small working gang, for trifling 
jobs, that they may acquire habits of industry, but should 
by no means be employed beyond the bounds of what 
might be deemed wholesome exercise. With these pre- 
cautions there is some chance of keeping up the numbers 
of an Estate, which is otherwise impossible. 
The apportioning of the labour to the strength of the 
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