1 68 COFFEE: ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



silver skin. This is winnowed off, and the Coffee 

 packed for sale. Should the Coffee be allowed 

 to ferment too long, it will give the husk a black 

 appearance instead of the snowy white one it 

 should have ; and, although this does not injure 

 the inner contents, the brokers will depreciate 

 its value. Besides all this, the beans are very 

 carefully graded and sifted into sizes, as a regular 

 sample makes a considerable difference in price 

 obtained. 



Some Coffee is not pulped but " hulled," and 

 chieftyTrTat grown in ^EHe Dutch : Islands ~ancl some 

 States of South America. The hulling process 

 consists of drying the cherries just as they come 

 in from the fields withering them, perhaps, would 

 better express it and afterwards cracking off 

 the husk by submitting it to pressure under 

 two heavy wheels running round in a circular 

 trough. 



If the planter has erected no buildings of his 

 own when his early crops come to hand, this hulling 

 is the only plan for him to follow. He spreads out 

 the stores of red cherries on a previously prepared 

 drying^ground covered with mats, and, keeping 

 them moved with rajces or by the feet of coolies r 

 extracts all moisture. Subsequently the withered 

 fruitTs doneup in strong bags and sent down to 

 the " Agents" on the coast, who " hull " it in 

 their own machinery, or at least know where to 

 get it done. 



