l8o COFFEE I ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



advisable to send Coffee to the European markets 

 in the parchment has been much mooted, and 

 arguing theoretically we should say the weight of 

 reason was all in favour of so sending it. 



From a circular of the firm Chabot and Andres 

 at Rotterdam we extract the following : 



According to statistics, the importation of Coffee in the 

 parchment for nine months has been 



For Rotterdam 101,752 bags 



For Amsterdam 86,253 bags 



188,095 bags 

 against about 150,000 bags in the previous year. 



It thus appears that the conviction is gaining ground 

 more and more, that sending in the parchment is in the 

 interest of the proprietors. The results obtained this season 

 leave no more doubt about it, and we are persuaded this 

 manner of supply will increase from year to year. 



Artificial drying houses are another develop- 

 ment of modern scientific planting. They are 

 intended to do away with the dilemma which 

 stares superintendents in the face when they 

 have plucked and pulped their crop, but cannot 

 get a gleam of sunshine (as is often the case 

 in upland regions) for the essential subsequent 

 drying of it. 



Most Indian houses, as they are at present, are 

 of no use for drying Coffee and other tropical pro- 

 ductions, the temperature in them not being suffi- 

 ciently equable. To meet all requisites, a drying 



