COFFEE 



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COFFEYVILLE 



ing season la.-t.> iroui April to November. ;m<l 

 both njH ami unripr U uit^-urt 1 shipped. Co- 

 luiubi:i -\port> only the ripe berries. 



The Cofiee Industry. The principal coffee 

 plantations are in South America, Brazil raising 

 .ilmut two-thirds of the world's supply. The 

 great demand for coffee for a long time led 

 10 the uae of substitutes such as chicory, but 

 pure food laws now generally require a mention 

 on th< laM of the presence of chicory or for- 

 eign substances. In parts of Sumatra the leaves 

 of the coffee tree are also used to make the 

 beverafs. 



Where Coffee Comes From. The countries 



production i> -hown graphically in the 



hart are the source of about nine-tenths of the 



Colombia Venezuela 

 131 127 



Guatemala Dutch East Haiti Salvador 

 68 Indies 69 '67 66 



TIIK I'OFFKIO SUPPLY 



The principal coffer-growing countries shown 

 by graphic illustrations. drawn to scale. The 

 t millions of pounds produced. 



world's supply. Several other lands raise coffee 

 on a smaller scale, among them the following, 

 the figures representing pounds per year: 



.MI \i< > ............................ :> 1.000,000 



Pbrto Rico .................. ' ....... .Mi.000,000 



Hi itish India ....................... 37.000,000 



Cofita Rica ......................... 32.000,000 



Nicaragua ......................... 24,000,000 



Jamaica ........................... 10,000,000 



Where the Coffee Drinkers Live. The United 

 States is not only the world's greatest con- 

 sumer of coffee, but actually imports more than 

 a third of all that is raised. The .government 

 i>t i mates that the average American drinks 

 ten and one-half pounds, or perhaps 365 cups, 

 each year. In Canada, where tea is the favorite 

 breakfast beverage, the individual allowance 

 is only two pounds. Here are the figures for 

 the number of pounds consumed by each coffee 

 drinker in some of the other nations : 



Netherlands 15 



Sweden 12% 



Denmark 12 



Norway 11 



Description of Varieties. Mocha coffee is a 

 Miiall. urayi.-h-jjirrn bean. The name was 

 taken from an Arabian port of that name. 

 which exported at one time the finest coffee 

 in the world; but names no longer signify the 

 places from which the coffees come. Java, or 

 East Indian, coffee is a large, yellow bean. 

 Jamaica is a smaller greenish bean; Bourbon, 

 yellow, almost whitish. Surinam coffee has the 

 largest beans, and another large variety, called 

 Liberian, is grown in West Africa. Mixture.- 

 of these produce other varieties. .u;.r. 



Consult Keable's Coffee, from Grower to Con- 

 sumer; Walsh's Coffee: Its History. 



COF'FERDAM, a temporary enclosure 

 erected in water, usually formed of two or more 

 rows of piles driven close together with the 

 spaces between packed with clay. When the 

 enclosure is complete the water is pumped out 

 for the purpose of forming dry foundations for 

 piers and bridges or other underwater work. 

 The most remarkable use of cofferdams in re- 

 cent times occurred when the sunken battleship 

 Maine, in Havana harbor, was raised in 1912 

 for examination. The vessel was surrounded 



Belgium 10 



Finland 9% 



Cuba .. .9 



AN ORDINARY COFFERDAM 



by a huge cofferdam, the water was pumped 

 out and when the leakage in the vessel had 

 been remedied the water was allowed to flow 

 into the cofferdam, thus raising the ve.-.-el. 



COFFEYVILLE, KAN., a manufacturing 

 city of Montgomery Count y, in the south- 

 eastern part of the state. The Oklahoma state 

 line is about a mile and a half south, and the 

 Missouri state line is seventy-five miles east. 

 Independence, the county seat, is fifteen miles 

 north and west. Coffeyville is on the Verdigris 

 River, and on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa 

 Fe; the Missouri. Kansas it Texas; the Mi. 



