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room and sufficient air, the berries are always well developed if 
they are favored with good rains at all, but on the contrary, 
where trees are crowded and thick the berries are lighter ui 
weight. The coffee tree I find not only deep-rooted but a super- 
ficial feeder as well, and I am sure that mulching and manuring 
will greatly improve the weight of the coffee. When the coffee 
trees are ripening, I would advise: — (1) That they should never 
be stripped, but should be stem-picked. (2) None but the 
cherry ripe berries should be taken off for pulping. (3) They 
should be pulped before they ferment. (4) The pulped berries 
should be fermented without water overnight and then washed 
as clean as possible in the morning. (5) They should then be 
drained. (6) The berries should be spread out as thin as possi- 
ble on a barbicue, and should it rain before they are properly 
quailed, they need not be taken up. After they are quailed they 
must never get wet again, nor should they ever be put out on a 
wet barbicue. The drying should be continued till ''quailed," 
then they should be put out on alternate days and never put up 
closely until all fermentation is off\ which can be known by push- 
ing the hand down to the bottom of the receptacle without en- 
countering any warmth. (7) After this, the berries should be 
occasionally thrown out to keep them hard for milling, when they 
should be in a bone-dry state. The berries should then be sunned 
again. (8) Before pulping, the pulper should be well set so that 
there will be few bruised and broken berries, as these would 
spoil what would otherwise be a first-class sample. 
My ambition to be a good coffee grower began with the first 
Porus Agricultural Show, where I competed with others in the 
locality and the surrounding neighborhood. I was then first and 
second in the clean and parchment coffee. I was then further 
stimulated by the Daily Telegraph competition open to the whole 
island. I took first and special in December, 1909. The next 
Porus Agricultural Show again brought me first and second 
prizes in settlers classes both in clean and parchment. At Knuts- 
ford Park Show last February, I again competed against the 
whole island, and I was again successful with the second and 
third prizes in clean coffee and first in parchment coffee. At 
Bybrook Show in March I was first and second in clean and 
second and third in parchment. I also took second in clean and 
parchment at the last Kendal Show, but I have not yet received 
the prize money. 
Now, I am asking those cultivators present and well interested, 
never to treat too lightly the small things of life and to do every- 
thing thoroughly that needs doing. 
The price of coffee will yet become good. I have often pre- 
dicted this, and I have been satisfied to grow coffee with this 
hope, and would ask all of you who are coffee cultivators to do 
your best with this product that will help our little town and dis- 
trict and the island to rise to prosperity again. — W. A. Morgan, 
in Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society. 
