A Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies, During the Transition from Slavery to Apprenticeship, Vol. 2 of 2: With Incidental Notices of the State of Society, Prospects, and Natural Resources of Jamaica and Other Islands (Classic Reprint)
A Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies, During the Transition from Slavery to Apprenticeship, Vol. 2 of 2: With Incidental Notices of the State of Society, Prospects, and Natural Resources of Jamaica and Other Islands (Classic Reprint)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... it. Unfortunately, this is not a solitary instance of abandonment arising from embarrassments; but these embarrassments, I was informed by my friend, arose in a great measure from the impoverishment of the soil, and a mistaken system of cultivation, --the error of which lay in clearing the plants too ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... it. Unfortunately, this is not a solitary instance of abandonment arising from embarrassments; but these embarrassments, I was informed by my friend, arose in a great measure from the impoverishment of the soil, and a mistaken system of cultivation, --the error of which lay in clearing the plants too much of all surrounding vegetation, whereby the heavy rains were afforded a greater facility for washing away the valuable soil that was thus deprived of its natural protection. I believe this opinion to have been perfectly correct. In Arabia, when the plant is fully grown, the collateral branches of the coffeeplant are allowed to form a thick underwood, which must serve as a protection to the root, but the shoots from the latter are not allowed to remain. The plants are. likewise shaded with bananatrees, which is not the case in Jamaica. The plant which produces the Mocha coffee is the same as the West Indian; the only difference is in the mode of rearing it and the process of cultivation; but the difference in the quality of the coffee, I should think, depends chiefly on the mode of preparing the produce for the market in the West Indies. In Jamaica, when the berries becomeof a deep red colour, they are picked from the plant; and as the industry of the negro is estimated by the quantity he picks in a day, a great deal of unripe coffee is generally mixed with that which is fully mature. In Arabia, the produce is gathered by shaking the ripe berries from the plant, and then exposing them to the sun with the husks on till they are dried, after which the outer husk is removed, and they are again dried in the sun; but the husk is not removed till the coffee is required for the market, --but in the mean time it is kept in bags on elevated.
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