The Pulping- Jiouse. 185 



position be chosen, where there will be plenty of air 

 moving, so as to facilitate the drying of the coffee. 



The first building that comes into requisition is 

 \ht pulping- house , and it therefore merits the first 

 description. This building comprises three depart- 

 ments the cherry-loft, the pulping platform, and 

 the cisterns. 



The cherry-loft is the apartment into which the 

 ripe coffee is first brought direct from the trees. 

 As each crop-gatherer comes in, the sack of crimson 

 produce is emptied into the measuring-box, and 

 the quantity carefully recorded against his or her 

 name in the pay list. Bushel after bushel is brought 

 in, until at length a goodly heap is raised, some- 

 times filling the entire apartment, and rising in the 

 centre well-nigh to the roof. This apartment must, 

 consequently, be immediately over the platform on 

 which the pulping machines are placed, or, at any 

 rate, in such a position that the fruit can be con- 

 veniently run, by means of water, into the machines 

 in question. 



It is desirable that the pulping-house should be 

 built, if possible, against the side of a cutting, or 

 embankment, the cherry-loft being placed on the 

 top of this, so that the coolies may be able to carry 

 the ripe cherry (a bag of which is of considerable 

 weight) straight in, instead of having a flight of 

 steps to ascend. 



