Besides these machines Messrs. Gordon manufacture one specially 

 designed for cleaning CoiFee dried in the cherry, and a pulper intended 

 for small proprietors, who grow Arabian Coffee only, which will pulp 

 12 to 15 bushels per hour, costing only £14 f.o.b. in London. 



Messrs. Gordon also manufacture separators for Coffee and Cacao 

 and other agricultural machinery in numerous classes. At the Eoyal 

 Botanic Gardens we have one of Messrs. Gordon coffee pulpers which 

 has been doing satisfactory work for the past six years. It can be 

 seen at Avork during the season for harvesting Coffee, and special 

 instruction in its use will be freely afforded to any planter making 

 application. Smout's peeler is also in use, and can be seen at any 

 time. 



For producing Coffee for the English market, all that is required is 

 a pulping machine, as once pulped Coffee can be dried in the parch- 

 ment skin and shipped, to be cleaned in London, where it can be done 

 much more economically than in the Colonies (i.e.) at a rate of some 

 2/6d. per CAvt. When shipped dried in the cherry it will cost probably 

 four times this amount to clean, in either London or Liverpool. 



For home use and for Arabian Coffee, the machine known as the' 

 " Jamaica," the smallest made, would do satisfactory work, but it 

 would be necessary to use a small size Smout's cleaner to take off the 

 parchment skin after the pulping and drying has been completed. 



Sufficient has been said to show the value of projjer machinery 

 for the preparation of Coffee, and it is clearly certain that no increase 

 in our production of this staple can be expected until Gordon's or 

 other satisfactory machinery has been introduced for the preparation 

 of the produce. 



It is not expected, however, that the introduction of such 

 machinery can be otherwise than gradually effected, but when it 

 is shown by its introduction in one or two places, how superior it is 

 to the pestle and mortar methods still in use in our country dis- 

 tricts; Ave may then expect a decided increase in the groAvth of 

 a produce Avhich our Trinidad lands are so Avell able to yield in 

 abundance, and of a quality Avhich Avill rank high in the Avorld's 

 markets. (See illustrations.) 



