Pulping 65 



to do it without any risk whatever as to its 

 being wrongly adjusted. 



I consider this machine to be a combination 

 of well-thought-out ideas, and to be the most 

 improved on the market. 



I have visited a considerable number of 

 coffee estates, and I believe that the best 

 equipped I have seen are those in the State 

 of Chiapas, Mexico. Here, in the large 

 "haciendas," or plantations, the pulping 

 operation is effected in the tandem machine a 

 combination of two pulpers, one being adjusted 

 to pulp the large cherries and the other to pulp 

 those cherries delivered unpulped or partially 

 pulped from the first machine. Between the 

 two machines there is an oscillating sieve made 

 of copper, which serves to separate the pulped 

 coffee from the unpulped before this latter goes 

 into the re-passing machine that is, the 

 pulper adjusted to treat the unpulped cherries 

 delivered by the first pulper. The majority of 

 these machines were supplied by a British firm, 

 although some I found to be of American and 

 even German manufacture, which were easily 

 detected by their light, rough finish, and in 

 some cases unnecessarily heavy. 



With reference to the disc pulpers, these 

 machines are very much in use in the State of 

 Veracruz, Mexico; also in the Dutch East 



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