The "Avis", Christianssted St. Croix.
Wednesday 4th July 1877
Last month has been the most promising which planters of Santa Cruz have seen for a long time. "All that a planter could wish" says one, "The rain couldn't have come in better time if we had had the ordering of it ourselves" says another.
The crop is now off the ground nearly everywhere, and the sprouts were for the most part quite green and strong, and consequently were ready to make use of the full supply of nourishment which they have just received. As far as we can judge from the partial information which has reached us, we believe the average fall at the various stations will be found to be about 42 or 43 lines (5 1/4 inches). Of course it is too early to begin even to guess about the growing crop, but we may hope that the month just closed may only be the first of a succession of the same kind; in which case (as we are told by competent judges there is nothing in the other conditions of the island to prevent the reaping of one of the largest crops yet made. The present month has opened with fine showers, and this may encourage us to look for a continuance of favourable weather. Those countless enemies, the weeds, are springing up rapidly every where, and will need all the hostile energy of the planters to keep them in their proper place, and give their more worthy brother, the sugar cane, a fair chance.
(St. Croix Avis 4. juli 1877).
Vejret blev også beskrevet som perfekt for plantageejerne den 1. august 1877 i avisen.
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