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currency values of the total exports from the country and those of 

 coffee alone, since 191G, may prove of interest : — 



1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 



COXTOS CONTOS CONTOS CONTOS CONTOS 



Total exporta 

 Coffee onlv 



1,137,000 

 589,000 



1,192.000 

 440,000 



1,137.000 

 353,000 



2,179,000 1,752,000 

 1,220,000 861,000 



Owing to the lower quotations that ruled during the year 1920, 

 as compared with those of the preceding year, the total value of coffee 

 exported decreased much more than the quantity shipped, as the 

 subjoined table shows : — 



SHIPMENTS 



BAGS VALUE 



1916 .. .. 13,039,000 £29,281,000 



1917 .. .. 10,606,000 23,054,000 



1918 .. .. 7,433,000 19,041,000 



1919 .. .. 12,963,000 72,607,000 



1920 .. .. 11,523,000 52,817,000" 



In the heart of the S. Paulo State, as far as the eye reaches, one sees 

 the undulated country carefully planted with straight rows of coffee 

 trees, of which 834 millions are said to exist in this State. Each tree gives 

 an average production (over 10 years) of 49 arrobas at 15 kilos per 1,000 

 trees. The yield has fallen steadily from 250 arrobas and Mr. Cincinato 

 Braga states that in 10 years' time — unless chemical manuring is 

 resorted to — it will not be more than 30 arrobas. Some of the former 

 coffee plantations of the north of Rio which gave abundant crops 

 between 1850 to 1890 have been turned into pasture land and those 

 which remain yield only 30 arrobas per 1,000 trees. New coffee 



Coflee Plantation at " Sampaio Vidal " with Houses of the "Colonists 



