It is desired that the reader should understand that to ensure a successful final issue the planter has need to watch continuously and to know all the conditions.
In the case of pipe smoking and chewing tobacco the planter collects all the imperfect, injured leaves, or those inferior from any cause, and ties them in bundles.
On appointed days the planter brings his leaf to the warehouse.
The planter usually sells his abaca to a shipper who has a baling machine and large warehouses in some seaport town, with his own wharves for loading the freight on steamers bound for Manila or foreign ports.
Three years are required for these shoots to grow to maturity, and a planter must therefore be willing and able to wait a long time before he can harvest his crop.
It was dusk when he reached Robert's plantation, and he took the planter aside and asked: "Do you not know me?
The farmer of the Eastern and Middle States, and the planter of the Southern and Western States, stand in the same relation to this commerce.
This is attacking the best interests of the country; indeed, it is taking the profits of both planter and merchant.
They subtract from the husbandman and planter the just reward for that product which he has moistened with the sweat of his brow.
The planter of the South can look round upon his fifty, his hundred, and his thousand of human beings, and say, These are my property.
He discerned a gleam of it in Alcee's handsome eyes, as the young planterstood in the doorway, looking with rather feverish glance upon the assembly, while he laughed and talked with a 'Cadian farmer who was beside him.
The planter gave him at once a plow in hand, and no plow on the whole plantation dug so deep as that one, nor so fast.
He knew how it would be--or rather he did not know how it would be--if the handsome young plantercame over to the ball as he sometimes did.
One morning very early he appeared before the planterwith a disheveled and hunted look.
The room into which the planterled the old man was big, cool, beautiful, and sweet with the delicate odor of flowers.
Again Daughtry made the lip-noise; again the Shortlands planter did not hear nor guess; and Michael bounded to his feet and to his lord's side.
The more I know dogs the more amazin' marvellous they are to me," Dag Daughtry, after he had compassed his fourth bottle, confided in monologue to the Shortlands planter that night just before bedtime.
At the moment the steward made his faint lip-noise--so faint that he could not hear it himself and was almost for wondering whether or not he had made it; so faint that the Shortlands planter did not dream that he was making it.
There the grave and chivalricplanter sports with the nice young man, who is cultivating a beard and his way into the by-ways.
Climbin' onto the top step in front of the bank, the Planter lifts up his voice for a hearin'.
That flight of fancy is flung off by the Planter simply as furnishin' 'atmosphere.
With the elimination of the white laborer, as seen in the black counties, the relations of negro and planter are harmonious.
The result is, that in Georgia and Alabama, and I believe in other states, the law recognizes the right of the planter to reclaim the laborer who has left in violation of his contract, whether he be actually in debt or not.
The Southern planterwas not hostile to the negro slave--he was his friend and protector.
The planter who furnishes his tenants with supplies on credit is usually paying an interest of fifteen to eighteen per cent.
The planter himself is generally a victim to usury.
The country being then settled again, made too much tobacco, or too much trash tobacco, for the market; and the merchants would hardly allow the planter any thing for it.
Justice was not to be expected from them; and a poor planter or inhabitant, who was considered little better than a law-breaker in being such, had but a small chance of justice in opposition to any great west-country merchant.
The Colonel was succeeded by his brother, who had been a planter in Jamaica before coming to the estate on the death of his brother.
The plantersent him out a drink but did not bid him enter.
But the credit of planterhood was at stake; and so strong was the force of public opinion that the planter who had been a defaulter in hospitality had to abandon the profession and quit the district.
Among his chief allies was a neighbouring planter called Mactavish.
George Martell was an indigo-planter in Western Tirhoot, a fine tract of Bengal stretching from the Ganges to the Nepaul Terai, and roughly bounded on the west by the Gunduck, on the east by the Kussi.
One day was spent at young Spudd's factory, the second at the residence of a genial planter rejoicing in the quaint name of Hong Kong Scribbens; on the third morning they reached Segowlie.
Oh, Tom, do you really think that planterstole the houseboat?
Maybe the boat drifted away, with the planter on board, Tom.
It may be added here that, cleared of the suspicion that had hung over his name, Mr. Bird speedily recovered from his insanity, and became the prosperousplanter he had been in years gone by.
Maybe the current of the river carried her away and the planter got scared and left," suggested Songbird.
If that planter really stole the boat he ought to suffer for it.
Do you know the planter who had charge of the craft?
The planter had given his name as Gasper Pold, and had stated that his plantation lay half a mile inland, on higher ground.
I did not like the looks of thatplanter at all," declared Dora Stanhope.
But we left the Dora in charge of that big planter last night," insisted the youngest of the Rover boys.
The houseboat is gone--and so is that planter who said he'd take care of her.
The planter often built on the site of his old colonial residence, sometimes incorporating the old into the new.
The planter felt that the time had come to concern himself with the elegancies of fine living.
They gathered the news from house to house, brought letters and the northern papers; were intelligent couriers, in short, who kept the planter well-advised of all political rumors.
As the custom was, he was sold to a planter for a term of eight years.
The usual life of the planter admitted more luxury.
As a planter of black walnuts, or any other nuts, either for timber or wood, I should not pick up my seed haphazardly from cross-roads trees.
But, the placing the wheels behind only saves them; it is no protection against the boat's sinking in case of being pierced by a planter or sawyer.
His father was a wealthy planter of Santo Domingo, a Frenchman, of large estates, with wife, children, friends and neighbors.
The sugar planter often buys the fruits he needs for daily use and for making preserves, from the neighboring cafetals.
One planter said to a friend of mine, a year or two ago, that his two hundred slaves were returned as one hundred.
I am of opinion," says he, "that the West Indian planter should for his own interest give more labour to beast and less to man.
He thought one-third of the produce too much, seeing that the planterhad another third to pay to the Government.
Even the smallplanter could not stock his habitation with a single kind of negro: the competition at each trade-sale of slaves prevented it.
But a few tribes were so turbulent and sullen that the planter avoided buying them, unless his need of field-hands was very urgent.
The French planter took his slaves on credit, and sought to discharge his debt with the crops which they raised.
The census of the slaves in San Domingo was annually taken upon the capitation-tax which each planter had to pay; thus the children, and negroes above forty-five years of age, escaped counting.
Each planter had a silver plate, perforated with his letter, figure, or cipher, which he used to designate his own slaves by branding.
The only refining element was the admixture of superior tribes, a piece of good-fortune for the colony, which the planter endeavored as far as possible to miss by distributing the fresh cargoes according to their native characters.
They were a species of marine pedlars, stopping to trade at any house, by making fast to a tree, and receiving in payment for merchandise, whatever the planter had to spare, or giving him long credits.
The delicate enquiry now arises, can the American plantersustain himself under existing prices?
The planter might sell his cane to the miller, or pay him the established price for converting it into sugar and molasses.
This planter is of opinion that he can very much improve the crops, by bestowing as much care upon them as is given to the same pursuit in Cuba, and there can be little reason to question his assertion.
The "Funders" surprisingly enough consisted of the planter and merchant class men whose financial losses had been the greatest during the war.
Although he was never able to attain economically and socially this high planter type of social status, he taught the necessity of an aristocracy.
The planter sees that the condition of the great mass of emancipated Africans is one, in comparison with which the condition of his slaves is enviable,' assert the Board of Managers!
