" The smoke from the machine in escaping from the ground showed that the 

 nest extended in a circle about 10 feet diameter. After using the machme about 

 15 mmutes a small snake came out and died immediately. , It is about three 

 weeks since the nest was destroyed and there is not an ant to be seen near that 

 place now. 



"The next largest nest was in the roots of a large tamarind tree and although 

 for several days afterwards no ants were seen, I noticed a few yesterday and I 

 think it will be necessary to give them a second smoking. 



"The smaller nests were completely destroyed and I consider the machine 

 -an excellent and inexpensive mode of destroying these pests. 



"Yours, truly, 



"J. A. BULMER." 



Since writing the above the Machme has been worked befon; a Committee 

 of the Agricultural Society of Trmidad, and the results considered highly 

 favourable. 



9 1 .—COFFEE MACHINERY. 



Little can be done in growing Coffee extensively unless suitable 

 machinery is available for the preparation of the produce. We are aware 

 that in some Coffee-growing countries, there is great conservatism as 

 regards the use of modern machinery, and old and antiquated 

 pulpers are still to be seen in use. Where, however, the grow- 

 ing of Coffee has been started in new countries, modern machinery 

 has been adopted in preference to the old and lumbering mills for- 

 merly erected, and it is found that by their use the produce can be 

 sent on the market in a superior style and with a smaller expenditure 

 of labour than by the older methods. 



Having been once introduced, the modern machinery, to use an 

 Americanism, " comes to stay," as it is found that on short acquaint- 

 ance it can be much more easily and economically managed than 

 wooden mills of a by -gone century. No one firm has introduced more 

 improvements in Coffee machinery than the firm of Messrs. John 

 Gordon & Co. of New Broad Street, London, as was mentioned in 

 article No. 56 on Liberian Coffee, Bulletin No. 2'6, July, 1894. 



Feeling certain that their machines only required to be better 

 known to be more generally adopted, I wrote to the Messrs. Gordon 

 for figures, and they have kindly placed the illustrations given in this 

 number at my disposal. No. 1 represents a machine suitable tor 

 pulping Liberian or Arabian Coffee. No. 2, a machine especially 

 designed for larger estates, having a rotary screen and elevator 

 for carrying unpulped berries a second time through the machine. 

 No. 3 represents Smout's patent peeler and polis^her, and No. 4 

 shows the fan used for cleaning the dried produce. 



