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been gathered from the field on the Monday, 
and prepared for market on the Saturday, in 
a spell of dry weather: I have known it also 
to lay on the Barbacues for as many weeks in 
contrary weather, before it had gone through 
the same ordeal. With good weather and smooth 
terraces whereon to cure, nothing but gross 
and unpardonable carelessness, can produce 
bad quality of coffee. The difficulty ari¬ 
ses in wet weather, when one’s skill and assi¬ 
duity is called into action, to save the produce 
from being spoiled. After Coffee has been half 
cured, the putting it up hot at an early period 
of the day, has the effect of curing it all night. 
I have noticed produce housed in this manner, 
and requiring another day’s exposure to fit it 
for the mill. 
The Barbaeucs should be kept in good or¬ 
der—all ruts and holes neatly patched every crop, 
for to them and other roughnesses is to be at- 
attributed the peeling of the berries, their being 
scratched, and other injuries which the produce 
sustains. And while on the subject of “ Works ” 
I cannot help noticing the extreme carelessness 
and inattention which, in visiting properties, the 
works and buildings present to our view. It is 
utterly impossible to manufacture go r >d produce, 
unless the machinery and buildings are kept in 
good order, and the parsimony which is thus 
displayed in this necessary outlay is fallacious, 
when one thinks of the result, of one or two 
eh-illings per lOOlbs. lost on a o through this 
neglect. 
When the crop is perfectly i, which is 
generally ascertained by tnreshi .out a few 
berries in one’s hands; m t , • ' has at« 
