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are crop. It is planted 1 12 x 
. The Arabian coffee is pe 8 x8 hd de been allowed 4 o grow 
up to 6 feet high. I think this is a mistake. All eultivated Arabian 
coffee previously seen by me has been topped at about the height of a 
man's waist, and I believe that it is understood to be height. 
I: looks Healthy, and is bearing crop, not much of which is, however, 
now left to gather. 
he crop which is gathered is suceessfully cleaned by the most 
primitive method I have ever seen. is scraped witn a round stone 
in the hollow of a larger stone by hand, and then washed and dried in 
the s sun. It is obvious that it would be impossible to deal with any 
from a year. -to nearl ly three years old. It all looks well, and the older 
irees c 12. 
necessary to adopt some kind of machinery, and as there is no water 
power here, and as it is not desired to provide d machinery, I 
spoke to Mr. Crowther about a hand pulper. showed me a book of 
subsequently agreed that a smaller one, A 1 think, 27/., would be 
large enough. en brought out it ought e ho oused; it will 
require, of course e, only a small building, an: this should be placed on 
the side of the great tank furthest from the house, in order that the 
carried by hand. A cement-washing tank for the coffee of small size 
should lie below the ee € gerne or to the side of that a small 
cemented barbecue or drying 
I pus this Verses poe he at once citer the fu the machine 
got out if possible in time for the coming crop. | construction of 
the she | and 1 barbecue must await jts arrival, as we cannot tell its 
.. exact siz n though the present area of teria coffee is not 
. nearly in fall Serine it is obviously impossible to deal with the cro op 
of 10 acres with a couple of stones. I have accordingly asked Mr. 
Crowther to prepare a requisition for the pulper so that it m may be 
forwarded at once, and a vote may be taken for it at the next meeting 
of Council. 
While on the subject of coffee, I may state that the Arabian 
coffee so-called (it is no doubt the lécóteMiht of the Jamaica coffee - 
imported by the Basel Mission) is the smallest I have ever seen. Thisis — 
De Lib because the. vie dpa is too low oa it, bein more Nen i 
e Liberian xem It d 
been s on che seletion cei 
ce fn the origi l importation — 
a been 40 y é gest berries should ys be cet 
for seed. "ME. "roster d is trying a ails S ot coffee erie Sara Leone, 
which he tells me grows very well at sea-level there, and fetches a goan 
price. I think it would be well to get fresh seed of the Ax 'abian | 
ica. 
Again I thought, as I did on Mr. Batty’s plantation near Takva 
when visiting it early this er eee: that the cacao is the most promising 
of the cultivations. Eve ooked extraordinarily healthy, there 
' den 
perhaps too dense, shade, but iti is sonra y inp that the plantain 
is a very exhausting crop and it is obvi that in the case of cacao, 
which requires rich soil, it is iosxpetin wo grow merely for shade an 
