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COFFEE. 



A change in the manner of keeping trade statistics since 18T3 

 renders it impossible to present the production by years after that 

 date, as the quantity imported into Java cannot be ascertained. 



A glance over the preceding table shows that from 1833 

 there was a very rapid increase in production, due to measures, 

 calculated to push the industry, that were carried out under the 

 able administration of Governor General Yan Den Bosch. The 

 largest crop on record is that of 1855, which reached nearly 

 168,000,000 pounds. Twelve times within a period of forty 

 years the crop has exceeded one million piculs, dropping as low as 

 758,000 piculs in 1848 ; averaging 1,002,600 piculs in 1840-50 ; 

 1,057,900 piculs in 1850-60, and 1,081,700 piculs in 1860-70. The 

 quantity delivered to the government, added to the private pro- 

 duction of Java made available an average supply of 1,500,000 

 piculs annually from 1870 to 1880. The following detailed state- 

 ment of the quantity delivered to the government from 1833 to 

 1880 is taken from the official returns, giving the amount in 

 thousands of piculs : 



