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not apparent at the time, and is only discovered 

 when the coffee comes to be peeled. 



Messrs. Walker inform me that unripe and black 

 berries are no more liable to damage in passing 

 through a pulper whose cylinder is thus covered, 

 than would be the case with the " crusher ; " and 

 further, that a double pulper of this sort will do 

 more work than a double pulper with ordinary 

 covering and crusher combined. 



"Gordon's Breast Pulper," so highly recommended 

 by the writer above quoted, with the same inventor's 

 patent iron barrel, both I believe, now in general 

 use, are thus described by Mr. John Gordon himself 

 (of the firm J. Gordon and Co., of London,) in a letter 

 he has been kind enough to address to me on the 

 subject at my special request : " The wooden barrel 

 of the old ' Rattle-Trap ' had the objectionable 

 tendency to be always shrinking and swelling, and 

 consequently never would keep to the true circle. 

 This is entirely prevented in the arrangement of 

 ' Gordon's Breast Pulper ' with a patent iron barrel. 



" The latter is cast and turned ; then 500 holes 

 bored taper through the iron ; into each of these 

 holes is driven a turned plug, which goes about half 

 an inch through the web of the barrel. A wooden 

 spike is next driven through the centre of the plug 

 which splits that portion which extends within the 

 iron web, and thus makes a rivet of the wooden 



