10 The Cultivation and Preparation of Coffee 



be considered as a hobby full of luxuries 

 compared with the days of " Thirty Years 

 Ago." My experience goes as far as 

 Mexico and Central America are con- 

 cerned, where I have had, and taken, the 

 opportunity of visiting plantations adminis- 

 trated by Spaniards, Britishers, Germans, 

 Frenchmen, and natives. In the majority of 

 the plantations I visited, a phonograph 

 constituted the chief entertainment after the 

 day's work, and without exception the " indis- 

 pensable" cocktail was served before each meal. 

 The meals served in the plantations are 

 certainly quite European. Meat is practically 

 served at each meal, although they only kill 

 once a week, but yet, by means of refrigerators, 

 they can keep all kinds of provisions quite 

 fresh. 



If coffee-planting life is the same all over 

 the world at the present time, if the profits are 

 so remunerative in all the coffee-producing 

 countries, why should not coffee planting be 

 extended in those parts of the world where the 

 natives or, in some cases, the religious missions 

 have shown us that it can be carried out with 

 success, such as in West Africa, British East 

 Africa, Uganda, Nyasaland, Jamaica, etc.? 



Keferring to Jamaica as an instance of the 

 suitability of its soil to all sorts of cultivation, 



