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General View of Coffee Plantation Buildings, Pinar del Rio Province. Note Broken Character of 
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moreover, it has been found very difficult to prevent the gatherers from taking the leaves 
off the tip of the branches at the same time that the last coffee berries are gathered, a 
practice which results in a limitation of the life of the plant and in the practical destruction 
of its producing powers, as the branches from which the end leaves and tips are thus 
removed die almost immediately. 
Coffee gathering is paid for usually by the “bag.” The bag used as the unit is 
slightly smaller than that used in Cuba’s sugar industry, and is capable of holding approx- 
