Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1852-05-22

crop io.S. Soo,iei o.5.Ioi IiiSss
ISL ISL 5000 5000 s2e'oSd 20 oed ioo'eoS soo'soS
Total. a.+11,05s a-El9I5 s,3ss,oos
Average per sll,bs5 7E,so5 I5s2,OCs
Decrease per snnum. ss,76I 2Osee IIe,ats
The probable stoppage of the slave trade, was
assigned as reason, why the production of coffee
in Brazil could not be increased, as the planters
could not keep up the stock upon their estates with
out annually purchasing to 10 per cent of new
blacks The slave trade is now effectually stop
ped and there is no possibility of its being renew
ed, which will surely prevent any increase in the
cultivation OF coffee. On the contrary, decrease
may be expected, until the Planters can, by great
er of their blacks, maintain their stock, or in.
troduce free labor: either will require many years
to bring It about, if ever DONE The causes this
great annual loss of blacks, are the great mortality
until acclifated the very small number Of females
on the estates, and that but few children are ever
raised. The coffee districts being at some seasons
very cold and rainy, are not at all congenia 10 Af
ricans. From the foregoing it is certainly reasona
bic to assume that the average crop of Brazil will
not for many years exceed the present estimate,
say 100000 bags of l60 lbs. or $50 million lbs
The Java crop is the next in importance to Bra
I'll. This has been on the decrease for several
years past, it has ceased to be profitable CROP
The greatest production was 1,1C0,OC0 piculs, or
l46 million lbs. The crop of 1850 proved more
picus. Advices from Batavia to August last state,
that the crop of 1851, then coming to market.
would be 100000 piculs short of the previous one,
say 6O0, GOO piculs, or so million lbs.
The chief cultivation of coffee in Java is under
the direction ofthe Government, otherwise it woHd
have fallen off still more. The private planters
who at one time produced about 400,CO0 piculs
will this year have but about S0,O00. The labor
being free and hired private individuals stopped
rails off xVh M hacamn tifah md
many instances abandoned their estates altogether
In Brazil the reverse has been the case as planters
were obliged TO employ their slaves and could not
raise other crops.
The cost of raising coffee in Java, with shipping
charges, is estimated to be 10 cents per ID. on
board in Brazil, s cents; Cuba 9 1-2 cents adj
ding to these prices freight, insurance, and other
charges, the cost in the United States respective
ly, would be IL 1-2, 10 and III cents. These
prices being much above the Average rates from
1912 to l647, it is not surprising that the produc
ton in Java should have fallen offso much in Cubas
still more, and that Brazil should have ceased to
increase.
In the meantime the consumption of the United
States has increased with rapid strides 1915, the
import from Brazil was about 500,OO0 bags, in the
IL months ending 3lst ult, it was about l,GG0,OO0
bags; or 160 million lbs, and the stocks now are
not larger than at the same period of 1850. Bra
zil coffee constitutes about three-fourths Of tie
whole consumption ofthe United States, therefore
the total must be 2C0 million lbs at least and the
annual increase may be safely estimated at l-2
per cent, at prices not excessive. The increase in
Europe is generally estimated at 2 l2 2percent per
annum, but in the following table of consumption,
the average estimates of European writers FOR 1913
are assumed, which are believed to be below the
actual wants. The estimates of production
from the best sources.
The production of coffee in 1851, which furnish
es the supply for 1851 and 1882, is estimated
follows =