54 COFFEE PLANTERS’ MANUAL. 
rious vays of constructing these. A very common 
way is to make them in a line out in front of the 
pulper platform and below it thus :— 
Pulper Floor. 
Receiving “istern. 
| Washing Cistern. 
Washing Cistern. 
too 
\ Tail Cistern. 
And the floor of each cistern is on a slope of a few 
inches, each inclining outwards, the object of the 
inclination being to facilitate the washing and removal. 
When the parchment has sufficiently fermented in the 
receiving cistern, the door communicating with No. ] 
washing cistern is opened and the coffee drawn through. 
To clear No. 1 of its washed coftee and leave room 
for the second day’s washing, the same process is 
performed, aud the coffee drawn into No. 2 washing 
eistern. At end of No. 2 is the tail cistern, which is 
depressed a few inches below No. 2, so that the 
light coffee which generally floats on the surface over- 
flows into the tail cistern. This is a style of cistern 
accommodation very common, or they may be doubled 
in number by simply putting a division down the 
centre. That may be left however to the taste and 
requirements; of the planter constructing. The simple 
set of three large and one tail cistern is however 
sufficient for my illustration. On the same scale then 
I will shew what I consider a better plan, the three 
large cisterns as before running out in line from the 
pulper, but each cistern independent of the other 
and the tail cistern running along the whole length 
