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carefully kept apart. The picking requires to be done carefully so as to prevent the plant as 

 well as the fruit from being damaged. 



The Arabs allow the fruits to mature fully until they fall off of their own accord, or are made 

 to fall by slightly shaking the plants, a cloth often being spread beneath. This ensures only 

 quite ripe fruit" being collected, and is no doubt one reason of the excellent qualities of Mocha 

 coffee. This method, however, is not generally adopted in countries where there is a high 

 rainfall. 



In Brazil the crop is gathered " da terra " or " do lencal." If the first method is adopted 

 the fruits are made to fall on the ground, which is first carefully cleared of weeds, and the 

 cherries are afterwards gathered up and freed from sand, earth, etc., by sifting. In the alter- 

 native method the tree is shaken and the fruits collected on a cloth (lencal). Formerly. this 

 method was also practised at Santos, but since slavery was abolished in 1888 the gathering 

 <( da terra " (which is not so good, but requires fewer labourers) has gradually taken its place. 



The fruits are usually carried in carts to the places where further treatment takes place, 

 but on many large, up-to-date, plantations they are transported along galvanised iron 

 spouting by "the agency of running water. 



Preparation for Market 



The cherries as gathered each contain normally two seeds or coffee beans. Each bean 

 is enveloped by the thin delicate silver skin, and outside this by the parchment, and both are 

 enclosed in the fleshy pulp of the outer portion of the fruit. All these coverings have to be 

 removed to prepare the beans for consumption. This may be done in one of two ways, 



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