PULPER-CUT. 
Finish off the pulping,” says the master in disgust. 
‘‘ Get it done any way.” Then the cylinder is taken 
off, four men ordered to shoulder it off to Kandy for 
a new covering, having probably not pulped over 
fifty bushels. In course of time, coolies’ time of 
course, the cylinder is brought back, put in position, 
and found all right, crop operations being again re- 
sumed, but the wonderful feature in the case which 
now turns up is that the coffee is fearfully cut. The 
chops are set, reset, tried this way and that, tried 
in every way, but still the fact is apparent, that a 
great amount of coffee is cut, or rather the ends of 
the bean ripped off' as if they had been bitten. What 
can it be ? 'The planter in desperation throws off his 
coat, rolls up his shirt sleeves, and orders all the pulp- 
ter to be taken to pieces. He then found that the 
nail which had destroyed the cylinder had been caught 
in the chop, in which it had made an indented mark, 
which had caused the coffee beans passing through to 
present the appearance above stated. The chop is 
taken off and a cooly despatched with it to Kandy, 
for refacing. As this process can be done in a very 
«hort time, the picking was allowed to go on as 
usual, until the whole cherry-loft was chokeful, so 
that, when the chop arrived, which it speedily did, 
there was plenty of work for it to perform. Once 
more the pulper is set agoing, a cooly brings a bas- 
ket full of pulp and spreads it out on the floor, in 
front of the planter ; he thoroughly examines it : it is 
all right, fine whole pieces of pulp taken clean off, 
and not the slightest signs of any cut parchment, not 
even a small bean. A basket of the cleanest coffee 
is then brought and spread out before him on the 
pulping platform, which he carefully examines. He 
commences to count out indiscriminately one hundred 
of the beans, carefully examining each before putting 
it aside, and finds that out of every hundred, on an 
average, there may be one injured by the puJper ; 
this he calls one per cent damage ; nothing could be 
fairer than this : one, two, or even three per cent of 
cutting is not much out of the way, especially as, 
.after the machine has been some time in use, the harsh 
roughness of the new teeth or indentations on the 
cylinder will have become smoothed down, and ulti- 
mately the percentage of cutting will doubtless be 
further reduced to something merely nominal or at all 
events confined to a few of the biggest beans. So 
the planter proceeds to the spout, washes his hands 
and arms, and dries them by using the tail of his 
coat as a towel. He then puts on his coat and 
stands partially in the sun, in order to get this article 
of clothing dried 5 in its turn he puts his hand in the 
