In times of peace the exports of sugar and molasses from Matanzas have been very large, but the Cuban army burned many of the finest plantations in the district.
Like Matanzas, it was the shipping point for a great sugar-growing district, and one of the finest sugar plantations in Cuba was in the vicinity of the city.
Most of the crop is picked from half-wild shrubs which are the descendants of the carefully planted and cultivated shrubs which still linger on the plantations established under French rule, a century and a half ago.
Back of the town the plantations were neglected, the great houses fallen, while the present owners lived contentedly in the little huts which once had been built for slaves.
That night, Benoit, gathering up the local detachments of his forces, moved them in scattered groups through the abandoned plantations and off the main roads to the outskirts of the city.
Tobacco flourishes in the province, and recent experimental riceplantations have met with a fair amount of success.
They'll easily get work elsewhere, and he'll find it hard to run the plantations without them.
He picked out four of his most trusty Japanese, explained to them clearly where they would find the cans he had hidden, and sent them through his father's plantations to bring them in.
In the plantationson his left hand he saw the distant forms of several of Senor Durand's workers, but he met nobody on the path, and nobody overtook him.
The cost of living and of labour being low, and the soil very fertile, the plantations had in a short time brought him wealth.
They can hide in the plantations to-night and make off to-morrow.
Transportation from the plantations to the shipping points, such as Manila and Cebu, is also to be considered in estimating the outlay of the planter.
The principal exports are hemp and sugar, most of which comes from the large plantations of the neighboring islands of Leyte, Camaguin, and Mindanao.
In the south the plantations are worked on the wage system.
Cocoanut plantations are among the surest sources of revenue in the Philippines.
The new town is hilly, and is surrounded by sugar-cane plantations and great forests.
The cane plantations there were laid out centuries ago, and have been held in the same families for many generations.
Larch and fir plantations have been spread, not merely with a view to profit, but in many instances for the sake of ornament.
But this deformity, bad as it is, is not so obtrusive as the small patches and large tracts of larch-plantations that are overrunning the hill sides.
Let me then entreat that the native deciduous trees may be left in complete possession of the lower ground; and that plantations of larch, if introduced at all, may be confined to the highest and most barren tracts.
I have been on many plantations where children of eight and ten yeas old, were in a state of perfect nudity.
Why, said the gentleman, I will tell you; the slave traders come from the cotton and sugar plantations of the South and are willing to buy up more slaves than we can part with.
When the planters themselves admit that general cultivation was never in a better state, and the plantations extremely clean, it is more than presumptive proof that agriculture generally is in a most prosperous condition.
On one of the plantations we called at the house of an emigrant, of which some hundreds have been imported from different parts of Europe, since emancipation.
It is shown also by the direct testimony recorded above, of slaveholders and others, in all parts of the slaveholding south and west, that the general allowance on plantations is corn or meal and salt merely.
Upon four of those plantations where the apprentices have been thus taught, there are a greater number of married couples (which may be considered a fair test) than upon the remaining sixty.
I never lose a day's work: it is an established rule on my plantations that the tasks of all the sick negroes shall be done by those who are well in addition to their own.
Those estates and plantationson which the proprietor himself resides, are most peaceable and prosperous.
Most of those bounds themselves and the greatplantations behind them were under the swirling deluge.
The old nurse and the third Hayle brother stood side by side watching the beautiful low-lying plantations unbrokenly swing by behind the embankments of the eastern shore.
About the same Time another Party burnt the Plantations at St. Ours.
It is true, that the Plantations were first settled by the meanest People of every Nation, and such as had the least Sense of any Honour.
For, whatever gentlemen say about turning sugar plantations into cotton-fields, if the embargo be rigidly enforced, that we shall distress the West Indies very considerably, I do believe.
As to her West India Islands, they raised Indian corn; all their sugar plantations could be converted into corn-fields, and would any man say that they would starve because they could not get superfine flour?
West Indians would have learnt that they can do without us; that they can raise provisions cheaper on their own plantations than we can sell them; and knowing this, they would never resort to us.
They knew the resources of those islands, and told them that if they would convert a part of their sugar plantations into corn-fields, they would not suffer.
The plantations were first made by creole workmen, who were paid by the day.
Large plantations of ilex have already been established above Posadas.
Plantations were at once started, and three years later they came into touch.
The plantations made by the Jesuits were abandoned when the missionaries were dispersed.
Thus an unforeseen eddy brought to the south of the Pampean region part of the current of the slave-trade intended for the sugar-cane plantations in tropical America.
Some of the slaves from other plantations would pick the banjo, then the dance.
In this county practically no one owned more than one or two slaves as this was never a county of large plantations and large homes.
On the right and left of the fort are two small eminences which in our plantations would be called bluffs; but though they seem designed for batteries that would command the whole harbour, no such use is made of them.
In some plantations they have a jury of negroes to try offences under the eye of the master, as judge, and it generally happens that he is obliged to mitigate the severity of their sentence.
Unfortunately, she laid her plantations under the yoke of exclusive privileges.
The English, observing that so promising an island was without inhabitants, began to raise some plantations there towards the end of the last century; but they had not time to reap the fruit of their labour.
In the two former islands, the plantations acquire what degree of extent it is in the power of the planter to give them, but in the last, every habitation is limited to three thousand Danish feet in length, and two thousand in breadth.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century the prevailing industrial system in Virginia and Maryland was these small plantations or farms where Negro slaves gradually took the place of white redemptioners and the prevailing staple was tobacco.
If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould.
The Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Building was beautifully situated on an eminence on Colonial avenue, facing north, and adjoining Indiana and Nevada.
Then come sugarcane and padi, and then palm plantations again.
There are miles of cocoa-nut plantations belonging to Chinamen all along the coast, with the trees in straight lines forming long, broad avenues, which have a certain gloomy grandeur about them.
The high hills are covered with primeval forests, and the Malays have neither settlements nor plantations upon them.
The high mountains of the native State of Kedah close the view to the north, and on the other side of a very narrow channel are the palm groves and sugar plantations of Province Wellesley.
In the island of Treasury acres and acres of taro and banana plantations lie in the immediate vicinity of the village; and I passed through similarly cultivated tracts in the east and west districts of the island.
Growing in waste ground of plantations to a height of eight or nine feet.
Very common in the waste ground of plantations and by the sides of paths: 1-1/2 to 2 feet in height.
But there is one occasion when the existence of friends must be very trying to a Solomon Islander, and that is when he returns to his island after his term of service in the plantations of Fiji or Queensland has expired.
In the islands of Bougainville Straits, where there are numerous plantations of sago palms, the wild pigs are very fond of the fruit of this palm before the albumen of the seed attains its stony hardness.
A great chief, he remarked, required a large staff of workers to cultivate his extensive lands; or, in other words, numerous women to work in his plantations and to bring the produce home.
In the midst of the taro and banana plantations stood groves of the stately sago palm and clumps of the betel-nut palm.
Besides the native forest areas, there are in existence a number of parks and plantations of exotics, the climate of Portugal in parts resembling that of California and permitting a wide range of introductions, even tropical.
The use of the Waldfeldbau (combined farm and forest culture) was also inaugurated for the purpose of cheapening the cost of plantations (by v.
Hodges, who was the first to make plantations in the prairies for the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.
But where birch was mixed in spruce plantations its baneful effects consisting in whipping off the spruce tips and injuring its neighbors were soon recognized, and much trouble was experienced in getting rid of the unwelcome addition.
The same law applies to sand dune plantations in other, southern districts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plantations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
