April i, 1882.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
897 
Ions aga 
1879, tin; 
rt from Rio de Janeiro di 
will be seen from the table h 
,124 ions in 1880 and 2 
too early to 
The repori 
l or, that th 
Novem- 
drooghi 
pannj 
the hi 
4,000 
1879. 
JJPEB FROM Rio be Janeiro. 
from 1st January to 31st December. 
1879. 
1880. 
1881. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
North of 3uropo... 
47.1SS 
(i 1,583 
80,401 
Mediterranean 
. 18,431 
21,482 
28,801 
Europo... 
B5,6i32 
83,005 
109,208 
United Statos 
. l:il,<iuu 
105,993 
180,682 
C'upe, tundriosi Coastvv, 
8,805 
13,000 
18,303 
Total.. 
200,327 
202,121 
258,313 
from 1st Jul 
v to 31st December 
North of Europe... 
fleditei i anean 
1879. 
... 17,728 
... 9,711 
1880. 
Tons. 
30,828 
10,501 
1881. 
39,169 
14,29(1 
Europe.,, 
United suites 
0ape, Sol driest C 
74*382 
nstw. ... 3,298 
50,389 
70,065 
8,028 
53,4«5 
77,293 
7,638 
Total... 105,119 
134,4-2 
138,390 
Shipments of Coffee from Santos. 
from 1st anuary to 31st December. 
Tn our printed re] 
estimated the 1881-8- 
and calculating that of i 
1879. 
... 55,859 
... 12,113 
1880. 
Tons. 
50,650 
11,959 
•> 
1*81- 
Tons. 
69,023 
11,123 
Total... 07,972 
02,015 
80,140 
from 1st July to olst December. 
l>-79. 
Tons. 
... 23,420 
8,307 
1880, 
Tons. 
25,314, 
8,84'J 
1881. 
Tons. 
33,073 
6,084 
Total... 31,733 
rt of 1st July 
31,160 
1881, wo 
41,157 
r crops there re 
1,200,000 bags 
. ._ the Interior and in Rio do Janeiro 
at that date about 1,500,000 „ 
the available quantity would bo about 4,700,090 bags 
of which we expected that about 4,400,000 „ 
would como tor export .during the 12 months, from 1st July 
1881 to 30th Juno 1882. 
As staled alroady in our report of 1st December 1881, we 
are still of tho opinion that those figures will prove cor- 
rect, provided, of cour-o, that tho weather will permit to 
bring the total of tho available quantity of coffee to shipment 
up to 3oth Jun- a. c. 
According to tho abovo table, there were shipped from 1st 
Julyto3Ut December 1881, 138,300 tons, equal to about 
2,372,500 bug-., and in order to ie ich the above -month mod 
figure of -1 100,1100 bags, there aro Mill somowhat abovo 
2,000,0 1) bag* of ootl'eo wanting. 
Sovoral of our neighbours, who had put down the 1881-82 
crop to amount to only about 3 millions of bags, have— 
as far as has oome to our knowledge— heightened their 
estimates to about 3 .J to -1 millions id' bags, and others who 
hail estimated tho stuck of old coffee on 1st July 1881, 
in tho interior to bo only about Js million of bags, have 
corroded this liguro into a higher one, so that tnuro or loss 
all exporters ngreo that wo shall sco an export from 1st 
July [681 to 30th Juno 1SS2 ol about 4J— 4J millions of 
bagii of coffee. 
With regard to the coming cr.q* i 1*82-831 it is a, jot 
l'Jo 
upo 
Wi 
zil crops, which wo must expect hence- 
must accustom themselves nowadays 
g figures, and a fair average Rio-crop 
forward, our 
to doal with 
must now be calculatod to be from 4 to 4.', millions ol 
but as stated above— as long- as prices aro on the presei 
level— the wholo available quantity will not come to th 
ports for exportation, as especially the low qualities v 
kept back in the interior in expectation of better time 
COFFEE MIXTURES. 
The miserable state of the home coffee trade and the 
constant decline in consumption, in the faco of cheaper 
prices and of far lower duties than of old, are subjects 
which attract general attention. Twenty years ago 
the home consumption of coffee was 1*21 lb. per head. 
Bonded prices were then about 5s per cwt above what 
they were in 1881, and the duty was 23s 4d higher. 
Though the first cost of coffee was thus, say, 3d per 
lb. lower in 1881 than in ISO 1, the home consumption 
in the former year had fallen to 0 - 92 lb per head, a 
decrease of '24 per cent. In the same period, the con- 
sumption of every other article of grocery produce 
per head of the population had increased in the 
most marked way ; but, if coflee had simply held 
its own since IsSl, we should have used 18,750 
tons in 1S81, instead of only 14,216 tons. The coffee 
consumption per head last year is the lowest recorded 
for forty years, and yet the habits of the country 
have in that period altered, if at all, strongly in 
favour of the so-called temperance drinks, such as 
tea and coffee. It is a moderate thing to say that 
the coffee consumption of the Kingdom ought to be 
double what it is. Why, then, is it not so ? To 
give a full reply would be difficult, but one cause 
is strongly suspected by the trade, and that is, that 
coffee does not get fair play. It is obvious to all 
who look into tho shop windows, that it seems to 
be considered a recommendation to offer any sort of 
",mixtuie" or '"substitute" in the place of pure 
coffee. The value of that beverage consists in the 
gentle nerve-stimulant which it contains, and it would 
surely be unfair to it to offer in its name the must 
meritorious of compounds, consisting of valuable, 
though inexpensive, charred roots or stalks, or of 
roasted peas, or other seeds or fruits — with the au- 
dition of only a am ill portion of the substance with 
the title of which it is labelled. The extraneous sub- 
stances may possess every virtue under the sun; they 
may be dietetic or aporienr, or stimulate the liver or 
other organs, as is said to be the case with some 
of them but the trade naturally object to their being 
labelled coffee, for which, however, they do not go 
so far as to claim medicinal virtues. To what ex- 
tent these admixtures nro carried it is difficult to 
say, but it has been held by tho magistrate.- that .i 
compound of 80 and 90 per ceut of loreign substance 
and "20 or 10 per coot, of coffee, may be legally sold 
under the name of tho latter, so loug as the hot ti.it 
other substances aie mixed is declared at the tune of 
sale. This btato of thtugs is considered by tho coffee 
trade to be altogether unjust t» themselves. Such a 
compound, whatov r it» medicinal or other virtues, 
would bo altogether wanting in the WUIflntisJ POnntiV 
ueuts of coffee, and the public would suou insensibly 
find this out. The craving among every race of man 
for some uou-iutoxicatiug nerve stimulant, either in tea, 
