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has passed through it into the general sieve, 

 whence all that is retained and thrown out is 

 passed up, by means of buckets, into the pulpers. 

 In general, a good deal of the coffee is actually 

 pulped by the crusher, the beans passing through 

 the sieve to the vat, a fact which at once shows 

 how much this machine lightens the work of the 

 pulpers. The crusher was, I believe, the invention 

 of Mr. J. Brown, formerly of Ceylon. 



The operation of passing up the rejections of 

 the sieve into the pulpers is usually, on large 

 estates, and where there is sufficient water power, 

 performed by buckets attached to revolving belts, 

 by which means manual labour is economized 

 always a most desirable object in coffee-planting. 



Butler's pulper was an ingenious contrivance, 

 dispensing with both chops and sieve. It consisted 

 of two cylinders covered with grooved metal, made 

 to revolve inversely towards each other. I am 

 informed, however, that this machine has now gone 

 entirely out of use, having soon been put out of 

 the field by the adoption of " Gordon's breasts/' 

 which " also dispense with the use of the sieve, 

 thereby effecting a large saving in motive power 

 without any of the disadvantages complained of in 

 the case of Mr. Butler's invention. 



The following letter by a Ceylon planter, which 

 appeared in the original work, although written so 



