1 June, 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 467 
satisfaction in different parts of the State. The power required to work one 
of these pulpers is less than one man and the capacity consequently not great, 
but it is, nevertheless, capable of easily dealing with the crop from an estate of 
15 to 25 acres. 
This machine costs at the Phenix Foundry, Cairns, £12, as pictured, and 
without the cast-iron stand, the machine being made to be bolted down to a 
wooden frame or block, £10. 
In Ceylon or England these machines cost some £14 to £15, to which 
freight must be added. Moreover, the risk of breakage, as well as loss of time 
in obtaining machines from distant countries, make them expensive by the time 
they are erected on the estate. The advantage, therefore, to the growers 
individually and the industry in general in being able to obtain reliable 
machines manufactured practically at their own doors, and at prices even lower 
than those for the same quality of machines were they imported, may be 
appreciated. 
Huller, Polisher, and Fan.—The machine in the second illustration is one, 
if possible, even more useful than the former, being a combined huller or 
peeler, polisher, and fan, The machine is on the “Smout” principle, which 
works well and satisfactorily without breaking or damaging the coffee, 
proved only it is properly dried before being put in. The flow of the coffee 
rom the machine, and thereby the degree of polishing, can be regulated by a 
sliding weight, and in passing out the husk is fanned off by the blower. 
The chaff passes upward through the funnel shown, which may be 
continued as desired, while the clean coffee falls into any receptacle placed at 
the bottom of the machine. 
This machine has also been tested and approved, and several are in use 
among the growers. Its capacity also is as great as would be required by the 
average coffee estate in this State, and it is possible for a boy to work it. The 
combined machine as depicted costs £12 10s. The huller alone may be obtained 
for £7, and the blower alone for £3 8s. When the two have to be used 
together, however, it is much more convenient to have them upon a stand, and 
arranged so that the one flywheel works both. 
This machine will deal equally satisfactorily with dry cherry as with 
parchment coffee, and, as it puts the product at once into a marketable form, is 
invaluable to coffee-growers. 
. The question is sometimes asked—W hat is to be done with coffee that has 
dried on the trees? In other instances farmers who have a few trees, or 
possibly even an acre or more of coffee, conclude that once dry on the trees 
coffee is of no further use, and leave it without any question. Again, where 
the picking of coffee when ripe is difficult or inconvenient for various reasons, 
or where water is not available, or not to be had in sufficient quantity for pulping, 
the crop is often allowed to waste. This machine presents a solution to all 
these difficulties. 
The process of pulping produces a better quality, certainly ; but, if this 
cannot be done, the coffee is still valuable, and well worth the stripping from 
the trees or raking in and drying to enable it to be put through the uller. 
Dry cherry coffee is worth from 4d. to 8d. per Ib. clean, and, while often not 
saleable as dry cherry, as a clean, medium-grade, raw coffee has a ready market 
in the metropolis as well as the cities of the Southern States. 
Seeing that only drying is required before the raw product can be dealt 
with by this machine, and that on coming out it is at once marketable, the value 
of the machine is obvious, and the information as to its availability and cost 
will be of immediate interest and benefit to coffee-growers and those thinking 
“of growing this staple. 
Finally, the price of the two machines together, less than £25, gives a very 
satisfactory reply to the question as to the cost of machinery necessary in coffee 
culture, and as these two machines do practically all the work necessary in 
curing the coffee (except of course the drying, which can in most cases be 
done in the sun) the amount of capital necessary to sink in machinery cannot 
be said to be heavy. 
