Hacienda 
San Antonia 
(Colim) 
Mar. 28 
to 
Mar* 29 
tion snaking by far the finest piece of woods I have found in Colima. 
The Hacienda is at an altitude of about 3000 feet and a oortion 
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of the larger trees here or. north slopes are f3ne ash trees, 2 to 4 
feet at butt and same of them 80 or more feet high. Hear the upper 
end of the ranch is a beautiful little lake called M Javalin w from 
the wild pigs found there. 
This coffee ranch is remarkable for the faot that it is nlantcd 
undo? the natural shad© of the forest,- the only thing done to pre¬ 
pare the ground being to cut out the sparse undergrowth and clear 
sway any fallen timber there my bo. The coffee was first planted 
on some flats near the river and shaded by plantains but this was 
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old land where corn had been grown end the coffee was a failure. 
% accident it was learned that the coffee plants gw vigorously 
on the hill si opes under the trees and the hint was taken and now 
the plantation numbering tome 160,000 trees extends along the lower 
slopes of the hill for some 5 miles, and water for irrigating every 
plant is brought by means of tunnels and ditches, at heavy expense, 
from the river above the upper field, The coffee is planted wherever 
a little ground can be found with slight enough pitch so that the 
plant can bo grown and in many places little serd-eircular walls of 
stone were built up on the lower side of plants to vr event them 
sliding down the hill, soil and all, when Irrigated* 
The plants are set 6 feet apart and in the oldest parts of the 
plantation (10 years or so) the trees were about 10 feet high and 
the branches made almost a thicket. The berries grow scattered 
along the branch on Short stems in clusters of from 2 to 5 or 5. 
They are almost exactly like cranberries in si to and color when 
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ripe and are picked by twisting each berry from its stalk so not to 
break the stalk, as the base of main berry stalk will give out 
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