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COFFEE. 



1. Mandheling. 



2. Ayer Bangles. 



3. Ankola. 



Menado is considered to be one of tlie finest, if not the finest 

 coffee, but the quality varies more or less every year. The crop 

 ' of 1880-81 was 12,600 piculs, against 25,000 piculs in 1879-80. 



The product of the Island of Sumatra runs more uniform as 

 to quality, and the following list gives the product of the dif- 

 ferent districts in the order in which it has ranked in quality in 

 the New York market for many years : 



4. Painan. 



5. Interior. 



6. Triage. 



The triage or trash rarely comes to the United States, being 

 sent generally to the China market. 



SINGAPOEE JAVA 



is coffee shipped from the English free port of that name. Singa- 

 pore is situated on a small island, eight or ten miles square, and 

 not of itself particularly fertile ; yet this place is the great empo- 

 rium for the productions of the whole Malayan Peninsula and 

 Archipelago, comprising hundreds of islands, many of them of 

 large size, and upon which many valuable and important articles 

 are produced. The coffee exported from Singapore is raised in 

 the small islands of Netherlands India, and the Philippine Islands. 

 It does not possess the fine flavor and intrinsic value of Padang 

 and Batavia Java, and some years it is of decidedly inferior 

 quality. All Java coffee received here, and which was produced 

 free from the restrictions imposed by the government, is known 

 as " free coffee." 



The exports from Singapore were, according to the Singapore 

 market report as follows : 



