46 THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF COFFEE. 



store should also be contiguous to, and if practicable 

 lower than the pulping house ; above all both should be 

 some distance from the Cooly lines or superintendent's 

 bungalow, the effluvium from the rotting pulp and 

 drying coffee being most offensive and very prejudicial 

 to health. As already remarked, the pulp forms with 

 other materials, a very fertilizing manure, and the water 

 that has been used for pulping and washing the coffee, 

 is of value for purposes of irrigation, but if applied in 

 excess, is too stimulating and will kill vegetation. 



Two hundred bushels of cherry coffee will generally 

 'produce 92 to 95 bushels of dried parchment, which 

 will again turn out about one ton of marketable coffee, 

 there is a slight difference between the coffee on dif- 

 ferent estates, and even the produce of the same estate 

 in different seasons, or in the beginning and end of 

 the same season ; but the above will be found to be a 

 safe average, and of the out-turn in parchment, one 

 half in bulk and one-fifth in weight consists of the 

 parchment bulk, the average weight of a bushel of 

 clean coffee being 26 Ib. Of coffee dried in the pulp, 

 or dry cherry coffee as it is called, 120 bushels will 

 usually make a ton of marketable produce, the expense 

 of peeling and cleaning this are about 10 per cent, 

 more than for parchment coffee. 



A very useful forrn^ of monthly account will be 

 found appended. It may be kept on either quarto or 

 foolscap size, the latter perhaps is preferable. Three 

 forms of daily journal are also shown, which will be 

 found of great utility in enabling the superintendent 

 and proprietor to calculate accurately the cost of each 

 item of labour. 



