He corroborated the statements made by other planters with retard to the conduct of the apprentices.

On one point he said the planters had found themselves greatly disappointed.

It was feared that after emancipation the negroes would be very much verse to cultivating cane, as it was supposed that nothing but the whip could induce them to perform that species of labor.

But the truth is, they now not only cultivate the estate lands better than they did when under the lash, but also cultivate a third of their half-acre allotments in cane on their own accounts.

They would plant the whole in cane if they were not discouraged by the planter, whose principal objection to their doing so is that it would lead to the entire neglect of _provision cultivation_.
The apprentices on Belle estate will make little short of one thousand dollars the present season by their sugar.
Mr.M.stated that he was extensively acquainted with the cultivation of the island, and he knew that it was in a better condition than it had been for many years.