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Title Planting the Sugar Cane Bodkin's Estate Antiqua
Description Planting the Sugar Cane Bodkin's Estate Antiqua

One method of planting sugar cane involves placing a few cuttings from the top of a mature cane stalk in each cane hole and carefully covering it with soil. Young cane requires constant weeding and fertilizing.

Ten Views in the Island of Antigua in which are represented
The Process of Sugar Making, and the Employment of the Negroes
in the Field, Boiling-House, and Distillery

from Drawings made by William Clark
During a Residence of Three Years in the West Indies, upon the Estates of Admiral Tallemach
Photographer William Clark (1770-1838)
Date of photo 1823
People William Clark
Subjects Antigua
Estate Bodkin
West Indies
Planting the Sugar Cane
Search Terms Antigua
Estate Bodkin
West Indies
Planting the Sugar Cane
Collection Ten Views in the Island of Antigua
Place Antigua, West Indies
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