CHAPTEE IX. 



THE RECEIVING OF THE FRUIT PRIOR TO 

 PULPING. 



A PLANTER should endeavour to run his plant 

 of machinery as automatically as he can, thus 

 doing away with as much hand labour as 

 possible. 



This is usually effected in a large tank made Receiving of 

 of concrete. The size of this tank would be the Coffee 

 proportionate with the daily quantity of the b * 

 fruit. 



In Central America " Peones," or native 

 labourers, employed on the plantations are 

 usually paid weekly. Each labourer holds an 

 account book or card showing from a quarter 

 up to the full amount of ripe coffee cherries he 

 is capable of collecting during the day. The 

 amount of work he brings to the receiving tank 

 is checked here by the " capataz," or foreman, 

 who marks on the labourer's card the actual 

 amount of coffee that he has brought. The 

 marking is effected by perforations on the card 

 or account book or card, denoting whether it is 

 one " caja," half " caja," or quarter " caja " of 



