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which the coffee makes in falling (like the noise of 

 small shot thrown against a board), and should at 

 once be stopped. 



From the fan the coffee passes into the sizing 

 machine. The first sizing machine was made by 

 Mr. Gordon on Hunasgiria, in Ceylon, and was 

 awarded the Agricultural Society's prize in Kandy. 



(Mr. Gordon also obtained a prize from the above 

 Society, for the iron-framed pulpers he had brought 

 into use at the meeting of 1845.) 



The sizers have been greatly improved since 

 then. The latest improvement has been to make 

 them of steel wire, let into bars, and fixed very ac- 

 curately and strongly, so that the wires cannot move 

 about. This machine takes out the broken coffee, 

 and separates the flat beans into three sizes, de- 

 livering the peaberry and malformed beans out of 

 the end of the machine. 



This operation finishes the preparation of coffee 

 for the market, so far as it is treated by ma- 

 chinery. 



The discoloured beans are picked out by hand 

 from the coffee, which is spread upon a table for 

 the purpose, after which it is ready for shipment in 

 casks or bags. 



SHIPMENT. The general cargo in a ship's hold 

 steams and sweats, and as the deck is air-tight the 



