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portant coffee-drinking countries stand in the following order : 

 United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, 

 Switzerland, Norway, Russia, etc. The wholesale prices in 

 New York for coffee of different grades in the last 15 years 

 has ranged from 6% to 30 cents per pound. For many years 

 the coffee market was so manipulated that a surprisingly large 

 margin uniformly existed between the wholesale and retail 

 price. The trade sorts of coffee from Brazil are commonly 

 called Rio Nos. 1-9. From Venezuela we receive grades of 

 coffee called La Guiara and Maracaibo, while coffees from 

 Bolivia are commonly called Yungas, and from Hawaii, Kona 

 and Hamakua. Mocha is a trade name applied to a pea berry 

 coffee grown in various countries. It is obvious from this 

 statement that the term Mocha does not in any sense indicate, 

 that the coffee came from Mocha, Arabia. Pea berry is a 

 term applied to a round-berried coffee obtained from cherries 

 which produced only one berry. The ordinary coffee berry, 

 as all coffee users know, has one flat side due to the fact that 

 the ordinary coffee cherry contains two berries closely pressed 

 together. Whenever the cherry contains only one berry that 

 berry shows no flat side and is rounded somewhat in the form 

 of a pea, thus giving occasion to the name, pea berry coffee. 

 Java coffee is a trade name for coffee like the typical brand 

 which is found in Java. From Ceylon we obtain Native 

 Plantation, Liberian, and Mountain coffees and the coffees 

 which enter into trade from Abyssinia are called Harrar and 

 Abyssinian. In addition to these few trade names there are 

 also dozens of geographical names of various brands of coffee, 

 while the trade names for coffee as a whole are almost in- 

 numerable. Most coffees, like teas, are not composed of one 

 strain but are blended by the use of coffees from several 

 localities. 



The Liberian coffee is a considerably larger tree with larger 

 leaves, much larger cherries, and a firmer pulp. This coffee has 

 a poor aroma but is more resistant to the devastating leaf 



