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In the process of, separating the unmarketable Houfe picking 
grains, commonly called, from the French, the boni- 
Jication process, his attention will be strenuously 
called for. Here, as w^fas in the field, (simple as 
is the process) some are more expert at it than others: 
Fie must be carefully vigilant at the picking table. 
And here , should he have engaged in the conjugal 
state, a wife can superintend the business as well as 
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himself, and lie may exert himself in urging matters 
forward elsewhere. Indeed, the surest way to 
equalize the work is to provide each picker with a 
hag: and as it is a work which may be allotted alike 
to the, lame, the young, not lit for, and the aged, 
already past, more active labour—laziness or re- 
missness .in performing their portion, very justly 
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comes anions those faults which call forth correc- 
tion. 
Tiie Picking-Table should be of hard wood, and 
the, surface well planed or smoothed over; as a 
ppjjshed surface much facilitates the work. A large 
heap of Coffee is placed on the middle of the Table, 
from whence each picker draws a lesser heap before 
them. They then draw it into small handfulls, 
thinly spread, towards the edge of the Table ; and, 
after picking out what few broken or other objec¬ 
tionable grains may be among them, and raking* 
them a little on one side, draw the remaining good 
Coffee into an apron or coarse cloth in their lap ; 
and, if the Coffee is of a good quality, these re¬ 
jected- grains will be so few that the business will 
go on with wonderful rapidity. When the cloth or 
apron 
