14 COFFEE I ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



raid into the gardens, while jackals and monkies 

 are fond of the ripe fruit. 



"Monkey or Jackal Coffee," once highly valued 

 as the choicest form of berry procurable for drink- 

 ing purposes, is simply the undigested Coffee seeds 

 which have passed unaltered through the intestinal 

 canal of the animal that has stolen them, and have 

 been left about in the jungles. Elliot does not 

 believe in " Jackal Coffee," regarding the name 

 as applicable " to the seeds that have been knocked 

 off the trees, or spilt by the pickers, of green berries 

 that will not ripen, and of stray berries that have 

 dried on the trees." With all due deference to 

 that accomplished writer, we can only point to 

 the well-known facts with which every planter is 

 familiar. Dr. Shortt, in his " Handbook of Planting 

 for Southern India," devotes some space to the 

 consideration of the reasons why such berries make 

 a better beverage than others. We take a central 

 position between these authorities, holding with 

 one that the appreciation of such stercoraceously 

 deposited beans by natives is an undoubted fact, 

 and with the other that they are of little or no 

 superior value to those plucked in an ordinary 

 way from the trees. 



To return to the subject of the berries just 

 ripened upon their bushes. We have seen they 

 have many admirers besides the legitimate owner, 

 and this is wholly on account of the sweet pulp 

 Several experiments have been made to utilize 



