The State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has 1,908,000 acres planted m 

 coffee. There are 545,000,000 bearing trees and 140,000,000 trees 

 that will come into bearing within three years. 



Sao Paulo has 4,585,000 acres of land suitable for coffee. 

 Four hundred and twenty thousand laborers are employed dur- 

 ing the picking season. The coff'ee trees are worth $312,000,000. 

 The average yield per t,ooo trees is 2,300 pounds. 



The methods in use are entirely unlike the Hawaiian practice in 

 coff'ee growing. The picking is deferred until the whole crop of 

 cherries has ripened. The laborers then strip the cherry off the 

 branches, allowing fruit, leaves and twigs to fall on the ground. 

 When the trees have been stripped the fruit, with dirt, sticks and 

 stones is raked into heaps, shoveled into wagons, or cars on 

 portable track, and transported to a river, stream or flume, to be 

 washed in sluice-boxes. These deliver the cherry free from sticks, 

 stones, dirt and rubbish. The cherry is then transported to huge, 

 open-air drying floors of cement or clay. The sun-dried cherry is 

 run through hulling machinery, graded and polished, and, when 

 bagged, is ready for market. 



Santos coffee may, therefore, be produced and marketed at a 

 profit at prices which would drive our Hawaiian growers out of 

 business. 



Labor, during the picking season, commands high prices and 

 there is always a shortage during that period. Even paying the 

 higher prices that labor commands during the busy season the 

 Brazilian growers can produce coffee at a lower price and still 

 make a profit, because their methods of picking and handling the 

 crop are cheaper tljan ours. The Sao Paulo method is also bet- 

 ter adapted to the needs of the small individual planter who can 

 market his coffee to the large planters and mill owners in the 

 dried cherry, practically the only investment of capital, other than 

 his own labor, that is required, being the comparatively small cost 

 of a drying floor. 



This simplification of methods is responsible for the enormous 

 over-development of the coffee industry of Brazil. Hundreds of 

 thousands of European immigrants, German, Italian and Portu- 

 guese, have poured into this salubrious, rich and well- watered 

 region. As large an area as has been already planted is still 

 available for the development of this industry in Sao Paulo alone. 



