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freight, brokerage, &c. It has been calculated our 

 crop loses in the process to clean Coffee 61.75 

 per cent, of bulk and 81.8 per cent, of weight 

 that is, 100 Ib. of " cherry Coffee" yields not 

 quite 19 Ib. of marketable beans. The average 

 product of a ton of parchment Coffee as it comes 

 down by railway, is 12 cwt., so that the reduction 

 at this stage is 40 per cent. Considering the 

 amount of moisture in cherry Coffee, at least 40 

 per cent, may be lost in pulping. " It is a curious 

 result," someone says, "the weight of the parchment 

 skin should be 1.8 per cent, more than that of 

 the pulp, the loss by pulping being 40 per cent., 

 and again by clearing away the parchment 41.8." 

 Such loss in weight must be remembered when 

 estimating the value of a crop after a first drying. 

 There is also a slight loss in weight again on 

 shipboard. - * 



We have asked the firm before mentioned 

 what would be the approximate cost of a first- 

 class supply of machinery for an estate of 500 to 

 1,000 acres in full bearing, and annexed is their 

 instructive reply : 



" DASHWOOD HOUSE, 9, NEW BROAD STREET, 

 " LONDON, 1885. 



" DEAR SIR, In answer to your favour to hand, we beg 

 to say that the price for a plant of machinery to treat the 

 Coffee from 500 to 1,000 acres would be as follows, and 

 consisting of 



