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blacks, broken berries, triage, or anything calculated to injure 

 its even quality. Further to improve its appearance, the 

 coffee is passed through a sizing machine, by which generally 

 three sizes are separated : the round, or pea berry, and a 

 larger and smaller berry, each of which from the separation 

 is more even in appearance, and as such preferred in the 

 London market. 



Sizers are variously made of perforated sheet zinc or wire 

 gauze, with openings of three sizes, increasing from the top 

 in the form of a long pipe, which, being slightly inclined and 

 made to revolve, pass the coffee poured in above into the bins 

 constructed to receive the different sizes. 



The coffee, now ready to be packed, is at once put into 

 casks, containing 6 or 7 cwt. each, and sent away on board 

 ship without delay. These processes are constantly improving 

 and are now thoroughly understood a remark which would 

 seem uncalled for, but for the recollection of the bungling 

 and conflicting systems which were in vogue a few years 

 since. 



