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total production for Central America of from 110,000,000 to 

 120,000,000 pounds, or say about 60,000 tons per annum. Costa 

 Eica has produced a crop of 400,000 quintals (40,000,000 pounds), 

 and Guatemala rising 300,000 quintals (30,000,000 pounds).* 

 From Guatemala there were exported, in 1875, 7,302 tons ; in 

 1876, 9,260 tons ; in 1879, 11,251 tons. The crop of 1880-81 

 is estimated at 225,000 to 250,000 quintals, or 10,000 to 11,000 

 tons. The export from Salvador was, ia 1877, 10,992,997 pounds, 

 or 4,908 tons. 



I regard the preceding estimate as representing a maximum 

 crop, yet one of our leading importing firms, for many years in 

 the Central American trade, places the average total annual crop 

 of the five Central American states for the past five years at 

 70,000,000 pounds, or say 35,000 tons. The industry has made 

 rapid advances for the past ten years, and the best informed per- 

 sons in regard to it look for a continued increase. 



A great diversity in modes of cultivation and preparation pre- 

 vails. In some instances the planters use the most primitive 

 methods, and upon other estates the most improved machinery is 

 employed and the greatest care ex-ercised in the cleaning and 

 selection of the beans into different sizes. Costa Eica coffee dif- 

 fers in shape from Eio or Java, approximating more closely to 



* According to Prof. Van Den Berg, President of the Java Bank, the produc- 

 tion of coffee in Central America amounted in 1865 to 9,050,000 kilos. (19,951,630 

 pounds), and the average from 1876 to 1878 was 32,500,000 kilos. (71,649,500 

 pounds) per annum. 



Dr. Neumann-SpaUart gives the exports of San Salvador in 1877 at 54,710 

 centner (6,030,883 lbs.), and the total of Central America at 288,045 centner 

 (31,751,200 lbs.). (ITebersichten fiber Production, etc.) 



The French official " Annales du Commerce Exterieur," for March, 1880, No. 

 2,196, gives the value of the exports of coffee from San Salvador in 1876 at 

 $1,209,863 (98.5 cents United States money); 1877, at $1,686,444; and 1878, 

 at $1,180,069. It also gives the exports from Guatemala in 1878 at 20,935,900 

 pounds, valued at 16,748,702 francs. 



The Consul-General of Caatemala at NewTork states that 25,201,685 pounds 

 of coffee, valued at $4,032,270, were exported from Guatemala during the year 

 1879. 



M. Darley de Thiereant, Consul-General and Charge d' Affaires of France at 

 Guatemala, reports the exports of coffee from the Republic of Nicaragua dur- 

 ing the year 1878 to the value of $1,265,825 (of Central America). (Bulletin 

 Consulaire Fran9ais, p. 65, l^ie Fascicule, 1880.) 



