194 Coffee Planting. 



" There are one or two others yet on the tapis, 

 the invention of private planters ; but, as neither 

 has yet come before the public, it would be pre- 

 mature to notice them as inventions." 



Since the above was written, Mr. Walker, of 

 Walker and Co., Bogambra Mills, Kandy, has 

 brought out his little machine, which has met 

 with much favour and success ; it is called the 

 " Disc Pulper," and is exceedingly light, portable, 

 and easily worked. I have been given to understand 

 that the work of this pulper is very satisfactory 

 and good, but have never had occasion to use it 

 myself. 



For my own part, however, I should always 

 prefer a pair of the old pulpers, with crusher, 

 circular sieve, and buckets, to any other arrange- 

 ment of machinery I have yet seen or heard of ; 

 though this may probably to some extent be simply 

 prejudice, partly due to natural attachment to old 

 habits and associations, and partly to wa*nt of 

 actual experience of the working of the more 

 recent contrivances. 



Driven by a twenty-feet wheel, with plenty of 

 water, the double pulper, crusher, and circular sieve, 

 will work off 180 Government bushels of fruit per 

 hour, not cutting or pricking more than three or 

 four per cent. 2 (always of course provided the 



2 Since the above was written, I have been told that this 



