The complete indigo-maker. Containing an accurate account of the indigo plant ; its description, culture, preparation, and manufacture. With oeconomical rules ... how to manage a plantation ... To which is added, a treatise on the culture of coffee / Translated from the French.

  • Monnereau, Élie.
Date:
1769
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Credit: The complete indigo-maker. Containing an accurate account of the indigo plant ; its description, culture, preparation, and manufacture. With oeconomical rules ... how to manage a plantation ... To which is added, a treatise on the culture of coffee / Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r i ni'-ift produce more than 6d. net profit, whereupon you frame an ima- “ ,®“': ‘f yo“ will pay a little at- tention you will find your error to be greater thaa c L Z J> X A ^ You fet down fifteen fols for the expence of freight: though you know our Packs do not exceeds hundred weight, and that twenty fols per fack is -often paid; tho our merchants pay only fifteen. A horfe two days you ftate at three livres fix fois; but no body would perform the wainage for lefs than twelve livres per load, though it is but a day’s work. • igriorant that we have ware-houfes n the plains, at the foot of the mountains ; from wheme the load is carried by wheelbarrows to the place of embarkation, at the rate of a fol per pound, whicii, according to me and Bareme, amounts to fifty don“ m planters at Don- j n delivered at the Cape had al¬ ready coft out of their pockets three fols per pound, commiffion ; whLfore Coffee being at ten fols, is not the profit fufficient to lelt-to tfatlefman, bring up a family, and yolCS'o If the root of the Coffee be damaged, you will have a great deal of trouble to recover it, whatever care you_ may take to cut it ; if it buds,, it will weaken in proportion as the buds grow ; and it is ten to one fhat they perifh in the firft*^crop. You are of opinion that the Coffee-trees fhoufd be k tW tl,*^ °P ’ ™ine on the contrary is, that this operation will exhauft them ; the greateft part will fail ; thofe which promifed the mol, wiS do the fame m the firft crop, if you do not take care to leave no more wood than they require tofru6tifv In nioderation. The moll certai/method, î„ my nion^