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GUATEMALA. 
The present importance of the coffee interest is shown 
by the following table of the coffee crop, commencing 
October, 1883, and ending June, 1884 : — 
Departments. 
Fincas. 
Trees. 
Crop. 
Value. 
Pounds 
per tree. 
Guatemala . . 
218 
756,484 
11,340.26 
$113,402.60 
1.50 
Amatitlan. . . 
507 
5,152,900 
45,288.76 
452,887.60 
Escuintla . . . 
104 
5,914,850 
38,560.00 
385,600.00 
0.65 
Sacatepequez . 
626 
2,805,400 
18,286.18 
182,860.80 
Chimaltenango 
47 
3,511,839 
27,573.26 
275,732.60 
Solola .... 
82 
2,287,525 
27,993.52 
279,935.20 
Suchitepequez . 
253 
3,511,839 
52,860.32 
528,603.20 
1.50 
Retalhuleu . . 
598 
5,129,857 
33,250.15 
332,501.50 
Quezaltenango . 
409 
8,903,552 
124,779.70 
1,247,797.00 
1.50 
San Marcos . . 
177 
1,595,488 
45,115.68 
451,156.80 
0.40 
Huehuetenango. 
248 
627,276 
7,354.94 
73,549.40 
0.75 
Alta Verapaz 
265 
3,835,084 
2,883.25 
288,732.50 
Baja Verapaz . 
54 
900,856 
813.54 
8,135.40 
1.50 
Peten .... 
101 
18,545 
278.36 
2.783.60 
Zacapa. . . . 
91 
56,410 
182.36 
1,823.60 
Chiquimula . . 
1,000 
908,670 
6,595.52 
65,955.20 
Jalapa .... 
96 
30,210 
206.86 
2,068.60 
Santa Rosa . . 
560 
4,354,428 
26,032.45 
260,324.50 
0.60 
Totals .... 
5,431 
60,301,213 
495,385.11 
$4,953,850.11 
0.82 
If the figures of this table are correct, the average yield 
throughout the republic is 0.82 lb. per tree; in Escuintla 
.65 lb.; in Santa Rosa .60; in Guatemala 1.5; in Quezal- 
tenango and Peten the same; in Alta Verapaz .75; and 
in San Marcos .40,—figures which show a very large 
number of non-bearing trees. 
Coffee is planted in the shade, and the young plants 
require the protection of banana or other trees until well 
established. Plants are set ten feet apart each way, and 
topped when about six feet high. The Liberian variety 
is large beaned, and although of a lower price than the 
best Arabian, is more prolific, and in the lower lands, where 
the latter does not do well, is certainly more profitable. 1 
1 Even at nine cents per pound it pays as well as the best Jamaica at 
fourteen cents. 
