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plug, and prevents it from coming out. The copper 

 or brass sheet is now fixed to the wooden plugs. 

 The barrel does not require turning. Any common 

 carpenter or planter can fix the copper sheet upon 

 the barrel in about an hour. We have special 

 machinery for punching these coverings. They are 

 quite flat, and wrap round the barrel like a piece of 

 paper. The late Mr. Donald Stewart, of Coorg, 

 one of the most extensive planters in the world, 

 used the ' breast ' with a fluked iron barrel by the 

 same maker, and he considered that a quarter per 

 cent, of damaged coffee was quite enough. There 

 is an opening in each side frame through which the 

 man who sets up the breast can see when it is close 

 to the barrel at both ends. 



" If the machine is properly set up, the breast 

 goes fair up against the barrel, but if the framing 

 has not been correctly put together, one end of the 

 breast requires to be raised a little by a piece of 

 very thin hoop-iron. The breast should not be 

 twisted by the force of the screws. This pulper if 

 properly set is the safest machine of its kind in use, 

 as the inclined recesses on the concave side of the 

 breast protect the coffee from all damage. The 

 breast pulper is the most easily set and managed 

 pulper of any, having fewer parts than any 

 other. 



" Next in efficiency comes the ' Disc pulper, 5 



