COFFEE 109 



market the better will be its colour, and the higher 

 the price secured for it. 



Losses in Preparation. The reduction in 

 weight in pulping and drying the parchment is 

 great, not less than 77'8 per cent. There is a 

 further loss in peeling of 20 per cent, of the weight 

 of parchment, or a total loss in the whole process 

 from wet berry to cleaned bean of 82*2 per cent.. 



100 Ibs. Cherry Coffee gives 22'2 Ibs. dry parch- 

 ment; 22'2 Ibs. of parchment gives 17*8 Ibs. clean 

 bean; or, roughly, 6 Ibs. of Cherry to 1 Ib. saleable 

 Coffee. 



