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sidered, Liberian coffee is, I bue. the best to cultivate here. It is 
best adapted to our low sea level altitude, which is a very important 
consideration, it is more robust, and a heavier cropper than the Arabian, 
and it possesses the great merit that the berries hang after they are 
ripe P ae on the branches, peek the cultivators’ convenience 
whereas the Ara rries drop as soon as the 
ripe; and the price obtained E the Liberian coffee is as much as is 
obtained for average Arabian coffee. The great advantage of the fruit 
hanging till it can be picked may be judged from the fact that the 
opposite condition in Arabian coffee had a good deal to do with the 
coffee industry lapsing here fifty years ago. The supply of labour after 
emancipation was minime and coffee cultivators could not obtain it 
when their erop was ripe at a price that would leave any bs of 
rofit. Hence the fruit fel to the ground and rotied, and the enter- 
prise had to be abandoned. Labour, to be sure, is more oint now, 
t the element of security possessed by the Liberian coffee under the 
In Java and the Malay shy the cultivation of Liberian coffee 
appears to be far in advance of what is being done in Southern 
India, and the produce is a roaa export. As stated in the Kew 
Bulletin for 1888, p. 261, the plan of fermenting a berries before 
they are pulped has been for some time adopted in Jav: 
This notice may eonclude with the following extract ps the General 
Report on planting by Mr. John F. M. Cock, Su RE aeu Govern- 
ment Plantations, Perak, eni in the Perak Government Gazette 
for September 19th last. It will be seen that Mr. Cock while recom- 
roo a the planting of Likerian soolo still gives the palm to the 
As matters stand at present anyone proposing to open land must 
make sure of the terms on which he bere allowed to employ labour. 
tting 
‘a only, clear up thoroughly, burning everything except the very 
belii: — Plant t rapid-growing trees in the neighbourhood of 
cattle establishment from the e very first, They are a widia thing 
about = TT cole on them, the. bullocks save your coolies in 
from the Arabian trees, the Tiberian trees will be well grown and 
demanding the removal of the Arabian coffee. When a base to work 
