Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-08-02


A series OF letters from The Island Of
Cuba, is now in course Of publication in
the New Orleans Picayune. From Que
ofihose letters We extract the following de-
scriplion Of the cultivation Of the coffee
Tree.
Coffee being the staple commodity Of
the island, the great majority Of The popu-
la,ion-free aud servi!e-aro engaged in
its cultivation aud preparation. The sys-
tenn Of both varies so little :ha, when you
see one plantation, you can distinguish
little novel or differing from il. though you
were to see hundreds. The process oh
served in "raising" coffee is something
such as this The seed is FIRST planted in
o nursery, as it were; while j, is sprout-
ing up into a young tree OF Plaut, the field
foTiis Observation-Disclosures cover
Ing hundreds of acres--is being welded
aud prepared. When the sapling attain
,he proper age and worth, they are taken
up and planted for permanent proposes IN
the coffee field. They arc pu, down in
rows at distances from each other Of from
four to six feet longiiudinally and from six
TO eight feet latisudinally. Here they re-
main until they are worn out. bearing cof
fec iu some soils for period as long as
twenty years. The Geld being thus plan
ted, the whole Of the planters attention.
year aite: year, is now directed. frs, to
keeping The plantation clean and enlircly
free from weeds, for this is ndispensab!y
necessary to the good and wholesome
growth Of the trees next in trimming the
trees, so us TO proven, them from reaching
higher attitude than the coffee can be
plucked from them by the hand. or cx-
tending their branches TOO wide, thereby
preventing the pickers from passing easily
around them. Secondly. in p!ucking or
picking oil the coffee berries from the tree
at the proper season !; and thirdly, in pre-
pairing i, for market. The wedding is
done with grea, care-not as much as
single blade OF grass is TO be discovered
among the coffee trees, covering entire
acres, and .hus the whole powers Of the
soils which Is mari Of heavy reddish
color, are preserved for their nourishment.
Round the bounds Of The coffee field, and
al convenient distances through them There
are walks o: avenues, the margins Of which
are laid out with great taste. and planted
with palm, orange and other trees, giving
it grea, beauty. lndeed. coffee plan,s-
ton seems iobe nothing more nor less than
an overpassingly sweet perfume, ,and when
the trees are in flower, or when The ber-
ries are red-some still being grcen--it is
picturesque beyond any Thing.
As The tree docs not seud forth all its
blossoms simultaneously. portion Of the
berries becume ripe before the rest, and
hence the process Of picking Is repeated at
different periods. The b!ossom frs, shoots
forth la The latter part Of Apri! or early
part Of Mny. and mex, in the latter part of
May or early par, OF June. The berry
FIRST assumes green hue, and a. il be-
comes more ripe it changes TO deep red.
The pulling is performed in August and
Sep,enbess The general process Of pre-
paring the coffee for narks, is this lit is
fret placed on a glacier OF circular shape
and smoothly plas,ercd surface. built ex,
pressly for the purpose, in quantity rating
abou, twelve inches iu depth. This is done
for the purpose Of rotting the abcl! or husk
Of the herriers, every Que Of which contains
two or twin grains of coffee II is snexr,
placed on the same glacier, ,bu, i less quau-
titles, dried by exposure TO the sun; when
dried, il is put in u circular mill or trough,
where The wheel passing over il breaks off
the shell and clears The grain from al! in
cumbrances. II is mex; winnomcd, by
which the broken husks are blown of from
the grain, ard lastly it is picked or sssor-
ted, the pickers using their hands alone
and having no aid from machinery, diyid-
ing the crop, grain. BY grain, into their dii.
fereu, classes-supcrior, tniddiirg and in
terior. il is then pu, up for market.
The ex,en, to which the cultivation Of
coffee is carried in Havana may he Judged
from, me fac1 that in 1912, thirteen tnou-
ssrd FIVE hundrcd tons were exported from
the port Of Havana alone.
The Fighting Clergyman Of Teane;sce.
We find in ia'o Tennessee paper, Of
which the Rev. Dir. Brownlow is editor.
the following Gard" The Reverend
gentleman talks plain, ihai's certain.
III Car9.--Whilc seated in my house
writing, disturbing no man, and without