44 COFFEE PLANTERS’ MANUAL. 
ep aiey in hand for procuring necessaries or comforte 
there. 
THE Cuerry Lorr or upper floor of the pulping- 
house is the place where the cherry coffee is measured, 
as it comes in from the field, each picker receiving a 
ticket to denote the quantity he has brought in. 
These tickets are retired at the end of the day, week, - 
or month by placing the laborer’s name in the check- 
roll for the quantity he has brought in. In the cherry 
loft is a hole about 6 inches square, right over the 
pulper through which on withdrawing a trap door it 
is allowed to fall into the pulper where it is divested 
of the pulp. 
THE PULPER is just a nutmeg-grater on a large 
scale, standing on a frame of about 4 feet high, con- 
sisting of a cylinder set horizontally, covered with 
copper punched on wood, about 2 feet long by 1 foot 
diameter, which, on being turned, presses against two 
bars or chops, one set close enough to crush off the 
skin or pulp, which is dragged backward by the cy- 
lider, goes out behind and is carried away by a 
spout to the pit in which it accumulates for manure, 
while the seed or bean drops down into a sieve 
below attached to the machine. The other or lower 
chop is set so close to the cylinder, that the beans 
cannot pass through. They therefore pass out in front, 
and falling on the beforenamed sieve are thrown for- 
ward by an oscillating motion, till after a few tossings 
they fall through into a spout below which carries 
tkem into a trough or cistern in front—and any pulp 
that may have found its way forward with the beans 
is again gathered up and thrown into the hopper or 
box on top of the pulper which receives the fresh 
cherry from the cherry-loft. With it this pulp, which 
is called tails, is made to perform another revolution ; 
during which process most of the beans are squeezed 
out and mix with the rest of the parchment coffee in 
the cistern. Any that escapes a second time with the 
pulp on it is afterwards either trampled out, and 
washed as second quality when time permits, or is 
dried and the husk separated from it afterwards. 
This description of a pulper refers to what in planter 
parlance is called the old ‘‘ Rattletrap,’—the same 
machine described by ‘‘Laborie.” But there are many 
new inventions since, which space will not permit of 
being particularized here. Suffice it to say that, after 
all the modern improvements, a well-set rattletrap 
will generally be found to do its work as clean and 
well as any one of them. 
THE CISTERNS are sunk into the ground in front 
‘of and below the pulper floor, and consist of Receiv- 
ing Cistern or Cisterns, Washing Cistern, and Tail 
