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Title: The farmer's every-day book; or, Sketches of social life in the country : with the popular elements of practical and theoretical agriculture. Also, five hundred receipts on hygeian, domestic, and rural economy
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Blake, John Lauris, 1788-1857
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Auburn, Buffalo : Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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leaves, and large, silky pan-icles, give it a beautiful aspect. The stems are very smooth,shining, and filled with spongy pith. The flowers are small andvery abundant, clothed externally with numerous silky hairs.The sugar-cane flowers only after the lapse of an entire year.In the West Indies, it is propagated by cuttings from the rootend, planted in hills or trenches in the spring or autumn. Aplantation lasts from six to ten years. The juice of the sugar-cane is so palatable and nutritive, that,during the sugar harvest, every creature which partakes freelyof it, whether man or dumb beast, appears to derive health andvigor from its use. The meagre and sickly negroes exhibit atthis season a surprising alteration; and the laboring horses,oxen, and mules, though constantly at work, yet, as they areallowed to eat, almost without restraint, of the refuse plantsand scummings from the boiling-house, improve infinitely more Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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can save them. They either get married before they CULTURE AND HISTORY OF SUGAR. 433 than at any other period of the year. Indeed, sugar is sup-posed to be the most nourishing substance in nature; personshave hved upon it, in times of scarcity, on board a ship ; it isalso wholesome, as it in such cases cured the scurvy. TheIndians prefer it for their long journeys, because it does notcorrupt and spoil, like many sorts of provisions ; and they mixit with an equal quantity of powdered Indian corn. It ma) beadded, that the plague has never appeared in those countrieswhere it is in much use ; and, also, that it tends to hinder thevirulence of malignant fevers. About one hundred years ago, that is, in 1*751, some FrenchJesuits are said to have planted sugar-cane on the present siteof the city of New Orleans. For more than forty years theprogress in the culture was slow. But on the breaking out ofthe revolution in St. Domingo, a large number of planters fromthat island came to the State of

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