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or a result of ioc. per pound for his coffee and all the 
trouble and delay of cleaning it. 
It would thus appear that the results by Mr. MORRIS'S 
system are better than if the coffee were pulped and 
hulled on the estate ; but in the above calculations two 
cents a pound are set down as the value of the hulls. As 
a matter of faft, however, the present value is one cent 
a pound, and this reduces the net result by $6, showing 
a slight gain to the planter if he clean the coffee him- 
self. It remains to be seen, too, whether the cost of 
preparing the coffee on an estate will prove so high as 
three cents a pound, and recent calculations have led 
me to believe that it will not be so. However, Mr. 
MORRIS deserves infinite credit for What he has already 
done, and he will doubtless be able so to improve on his 
process as to hold out substantial inducements for planters 
to adopt his system. 
I may now make some remarks in regard to the 
probable return per acre, and I will base my calculations 
on the figures of Mr. BROWN who shows the value of 
the coffee to be 14 cents a pound, that is to say £3. 5. 4- 
a hundred weight — a sum much smaller than what I sold 
my last coffee for. If four hundred weights per acre be 
taken as the return, and this I believe to be a minimum 
calculation, the gross value of the coffee would be 
£13. 1. 4 — say £13 in round numbers. The cost of 
cultivation and shipping expenses may be put down at 
£7 per acre, and this would leave £6 an acre as the net 
profit, if only four hundred weights be obtained ; but 
every hundred weight over this means an addition of f 
say, £2, with very little increase of expenditure. There- 
fore a return of eight hundred weights to the acre would 
