Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-14
From Hunts Merchants Magazine.
COFFEE-TTS PRODUCTION AND CONSUMP-

COEEEE-lIS PRODUCTION AND CONSUMP-
TION
Coffee now enters so largely into the general wants
of this country, also of the world having become
necessary of life, instead of Gas prior to this CEN
tury) luxury, it may not be amiss at the present
tlme when the opinion to be abroad, that the
consumption is greater than the production to inquire
into the growth of the principal producing countries,
and their of increase to provide for the great
annual increase of consumption.
Prior to 1926, Cuba, st. Domingo British West
Indies, and Java, the chief places of produc-
ton subsequently Brazil has taken the lead and is
now the producer of nearly the half of the produc-
ton Lagura and Ceylon export largely.
In Cuba sugar found to pay the best profit to
the Planters that about 1926 they began to neg
lect coffee. The annual production in Cuba being
then about sxty-fve millions of pounds. At the
present time the cultivation is neglected. the an
nual export does not exceed twelve millions OF
pounds
The export of st. Domingo has been gradually
falling off, that the average is not over forty mil
ty-five millions. Since the abolition of slavery in
the British West Indies the production of Coffee is
gradually declining. and will probably soon become
extinct.
The production of Java steadily increased-being
stimulated by the Dutch company and by the encour
agement given to private panters-till the export in
1913 about $50 millions of pounds, onethird of
which, so millions, was private coffee. The low
prices that had ruled for time previous to 184S
and since, have discouraged the private planters,
that many have abandoned the cultivation altogether,
and their annual production at present is only from
twelve to fifteen millions of pounds. The Companys
production has also rather fallen off, that the
age annual export of Java cannot now be estimated
800 600 picus about 10 millions of pounds.
Brazil from 1880 to 1850 increased the production
of Coffee in greater degree than before known.
The climate was found to be most congenial to the
trees, the yield per tree being double of the West
Indies, and the prices of slaves extremely ow-sel
ing on long credits at from 5000 to $500 each. Dur
ing this period the export increased from sixtyfour
mi ~ hun6 redm mi
low prices of Coffee subsequent to 1912, and the di
minished import of blacks, checked the planting of
estates, and the entire stoppage of the slave
trade in 1850 together with the subsequent rise of
slaves $3.50 and 5000 each renderly it nearly Ger
tain that the production of Coffee in Brazil has about
reached its maximum. The fear now is, that with
out supply of labor, to make up for the annual
mortality of slaves the estates, estimated on the
average at from five per cent to six per cent the
production hardly be maintained at the present
rate Some may think that slaves will be again i'm
ported clandestnely, but the government and people
decidedly opposed to the further increase
of the slave population, there's not the slightest pro-
bablity of this.
bill was introduced into the national legislature
last year for the gradual emancipation of the slaves
it not passed. but its numerous friends will not
cease their exertons and many years cannot elapse
before its final passage and adoption. Foreign i'm
migration has been attempted but with little chance
of success Cooley labor has been talked of, but,
yet none has been introduced.
Ceylon, by the encouragement of protective duties
in England increased her production of Coffee rapid
ly, from 1885 to 1916, and it predicted that by
1866 the export would be fifty millions of pounds
per annum The decrease of protection and low prizes
have operated unfavorably, that great many
estates have been entirely abandoned, and the pro-
duction, which had reached forty millions, is now
reduced to about thirty millions of pounds per
mum. Large capitals have been lost, and estates
abandoned for few years cannot be reclaimed it is
therefore not likely that any will take place
in CeylOn The same remarks will also apply to the
private planting in Java.
The export of Coffee from Laguira, &C., shows
rather falling off the past few years Certainly no
increase of importance be expected from thence
but rather the reverse.
From the foregoing it will be seen, that there has
been, in the aggregate falling off in the production
of Coffee since 184S, when it was the greatest and
as will appear by the following tables, formed from
the average of the best authorities that the produc
ton of 1861 which supplies the consumption of
1854 will be thirty -four millions of pounds less
than in 1913.
1t is to be observed, that many estimates of the
Brazil export for 1884 considerably less than
1880 bags also less from Java and Ceylon equal
in all to fifty millions pounds less than the estimate
below which would make the total falling off in pro-
duction, compared with 1s48, about eighty -four mil
lions of pounds
PROJECTION OF COFFEE 1913 AND 1888