304 TlMEHRI, 
experimenting with sieves, but I have not yet obtained 
satisfactory results. 
Fortunately, however, Mr. Edward S. MORRIS of 
Merrick Street, Philadelphia, U. S. A, — who has done so 
much to push on the prosperity of the Republic of 
Liberia, — has perfected a machine for treating the 
coffee in ' dry berry.' The berries, when picked, are 
simply dried in the sun, or on floors of buildings, and, 
when they are so dry as to make a rattling noise on 
being shaken together, they are bagged and shipped to 
America, where the coffee is hulled, cleaned and sized 
ready for the markets. It is maintained that the coffee 
so treated is increased in value, inasmuch as the seeds, 
being dried in their natural coverings, have a finer aroma 
than when they have undergone the fermentation and 
washings necessary in the ordinary process of preparation 
for shipment. 
My small crops have, hitherto, been shipped in this 
way, and my last account sales, received from America 
about a month ago, showed that Dominica Liberian Coffee 
was worth £3 194 a hundred weight, — which is a very 
good price considering the present state of the coffee 
trade. Mr. MORRIS has recently discovered a market 
for the shells, and this further increases the value of the 
coffee in ' dry berry.' The shells have sold for two 
cents a pound ; but the price is now one cent, and I am 
told that any quantity can be disposed of at that sum. 
It is thus seen that this new system has many advan- 
tages, and to the planter who has not the capital to 
ere6t expensive machinery and washing cisterns, its 
adoption is necessary. Against it, however, is the fa6t 
that the ' shells' form so large a part of the dry-berries 
