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The World's Commercial Products 



SORTING COFFEE IN MEXICO 



diminished. Under the Government of the United States, experiments are being made to 

 cultivate coffees of the type most in favour in the United States market, and to improve 

 cultural methods. First-class Java coffees are being taken as the standard, and every effort 

 is being made to obtain a product which can hold its own in competition with them. 



Arabia 

 The name Mocha coffee is applied generally to the coffee produced in Arabia. The best 

 portion of the crop goes to Turkey and Egypt, being purchased on the trees by traders who 

 themselves look after the picking and preparation. The coffee which reaches Mocha for sale 

 is that which is not considered worthy of purchase by those traders. 



Dutch East Indies 

 The produce from Java, Sumatra, Celebes, and Borneo is known generally as "Java 

 coffee," and the greater part comes from Java. The plantations are largely owned by the 

 Government, and great care is taken in the cultivation and preparation. The best Java 

 coffees are of very high quality. 



COFFEE PRODUCTION IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE 



The chief coffee-producing countries in the Empire are India, Jamaica, British Central 

 Africa, Trinidad, and Ceylon. Small quantities of the product are grown also in Queens- 

 land, British Honduras, and Natal, whilst in almost every part of the tropical regions of the 

 Empire one or other species of coffee is cultivated for local use. 



India 

 As might be anticipated from the fact that this country is the chief source of " British- 

 grown " coffee consumed in the United Kingdom, and of some twenty per cent, of our total 

 supply, India is the principal seat of coffee production in the British Empire. The most 

 recent returns estimate the area under coffee cultivation in India as close upon 213,000 acres, 



