REPORT OF SOCIETY’S MEETINGS. 337 
Land of Canaan, D. R,, 
22nd September, 1897. 
S. Bellairs, Esq., Hon. Sccretary, 
Agricultural Committee, Georgetown. 
Dear Sir,—Your letter of the 15th instant, along with 
copy of letter from Mr. Macgillivray, reached me on the 
2oth instant, and I now have much pleasure in sending 
the information desired by your Committee. 
To procure a good sample of Liberian Coffee, sweat- 
ing is absolutely necessary. 
The berries must be fully ripe before they are taken 
from the trees. 
If the weather is wet, the berries as they are taken 
from the trees, may be made up in heaps in some shaded 
part of the field. Each heap should not be less than 
three feet high by 5 feet wide. The berries so heaped 
should be covered with plantain leaves and allowed to 
remain from 4 to 5 weeks, by which time the pulp should 
be black and soft, and the sweating is then completed. 
The pulp should be washed off and the berries dried and 
prepared for use. 
If the weather is dry, the berries should be taken from 
the field and placed under cover and the heaps watered 
and covered with plantain leaves. The heaps should be 
watered every second day, with a watering pot, the 
same as used for garden work ; heavy watering will injure 
the sample of the berries. 
After fermentation has fully commenced, the watering - 
should be stopped but the berries must be kept covered 
until the sweating is completed. 
I will send for the inspeétion of your Committee the 
following samples :— 
