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ter Crop* when its occupations lias occasioned the 
field work to be, in some degree, suspended, and 
drawn off the necessary attention to them ; we 
shall postpone treating of them, at least till the 
getting in of the Crop from the field, when we shall 
consider also what young Coffee has attained a 
sufficient height to require an arrest of its further 
perpendicular progress. These Suckers, as we be¬ 
fore observed, are generally most abundant towards 
the end of the Crop, and therefore should be taken 
off at the time of gathering in the green and ripe 
berries, or last picking; 
Although the ripening of the Coffee berries 
varies a little, there is generally pretty good picking 
by the latter end of August or beginning of Septem¬ 
ber : and; therefore, previous to this period, the 
Negroes’ clothing ought lobe issued, as the neces¬ 
sity of keeping them out, and exposing them to the 
rains, which are frequent and heavy at that season, 
and the worse than rains, the drippings of the wet 
branches of the Coffee* is liable to occasion colds, 
indispositions, and diseases among them. A suffi¬ 
cient stock of buckets should be previously provided, 
and each Negro furnished with two, viz. one large 
enough to contain as much as a Negro can pick in 
the course of a forenoon, or afternoon, which is 
generally placed, for a time at least* in a stationary 
situation ; and a small one, which they pick into s 
and empty into the large one, as often as it is filled, 
A Negro is very improvident of what is furnished 
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