COFFEE PLANTERS’ MANUAL. 
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In this way each of the three large cisterns is both 
a receiving and a washing cistern, and the tail cis- 
tern receives the floatings of them all. By these 
means the shifting of the contents of the one into the 
other is avoided, and time and labonr saved, as there 
is no communication between the three: a spout 
merely conveying the pulped coffee from the pulper 
into the cistern intended to contain that day’s pulp- 
ing. You could thus be operating, if need were, on 
three days’ pulping at one and the same time with- 
out confusion or trouble. Another point to which lL 
would direct attention is the inclination or slope of 
‘the floor of the cisterns. This, as I have before shewn, 
is generally nade outwards. But a better plan is to 
slope it inwards, and have a back or side trap-door 
through which to pass off the dirty warer after the 
coffee has been washed. The manipulation of the coffee 
in this way is easier, and the operators have it better 
in command when it lies at the lower than when 
drawn about by the ‘mattapalaka’ at the upper end 
of the cistern. The water covers up the coffee, and 
the light beans during the operation of turning or 
stirring readily float to the surface. I have seen this 
process in excellent working on an estate in Dimbula. 
The door may even be at the upper end of the cis- 
tern, as the angle of the incline is so gentle, that 
almost all the water flows off with a rush when the 
«oor is opened, carrying the floats along with it; 
and what little water remains with the coffee undis- 
placed will drain off as the coffee is lifted out upon 
a grating outside the cistern: a very convenient mode 
of separating the remaining water from the parch- 
ment, as the water passes through the grating and 
goes off in a spout underground, while the coffee 
remains high and dry, to be afterwards conveyed to 
the barbacue. 
THE Estimate for bringing a small estate into bear- 
ing is the only other point on which I find it necess- 
-ary to make a few remarks. It will be seen that I 
