New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-21
The Coffee Berry.


The Coffee Berry.
An extraordinary increase in ,bs
sumption of coffee in the United Sal
shown by the statistics of imporr-
Thus, at the six leading ports on The h
tic coast there was entered in 1872 MI
tons; in 1873, 10000 tons, and IN
$4,000 tons, while this year promises
larger increase.
New York city maintains its preeun
in the coffee trade despite the riys
Baltimore, which just now is very ham
having All exclusive line of steamers q
the great coffee port of the world.
her old competitor has none. As tbr
on the opposite side of the river Viii
a transit project fails in New York, h
for jersey" SO in the same spirit
Garrison's line stopped, they had no
TO shed in Baltimore. But perhau
York will have another Brazil Linz
soon. That's the present appearance,
the coffee trade there are some curior;
The wonderful faculty sometimes
oped by professional tea. tasters isr
manifest among experts in the coies
By merely shifting a handful of raw u
an accurate judgment is often i0r:
an entire lot, without regard to size
OF polish. AS an absorbent coffee hs.
liar properties, 80 that coil of tarrst
stored in the same apartment may. in
of time, impregnate the whole with
nous flavor. So, too, coffee is often des.
as "hidey," meaning that its mera
value has been impaired by the rali
Of the hide in which it was bound for
portation. In a jocular way-telli.u
the breakfast table-coffee is also spOi
by dealers as monkey clean" i'm,
that the kernels have been gathered
haunts OF the animal named, after "
through process of imperfect dga
For obvious reasons, while the extern
pesrance may be unusually brigl;
connoisseur in such matters is sOm:
accused of being excessively fa:.
In the same way, what is known az
pepper is descriptive of the spicy pI
from Cayenne, which the birds
dropped in their lodging places au0
trees. Coffee, which in the ways ina]
may have absorbed Odors foreign TO
betrays its true character more De-
under the influence of heat, lateI.
being released and made palpabA
senses.
The bulk of our coffee importation,
from Brazil, as the quality known a.
chiefly in demand South and Wes.
Eastern part of the country thu JAVA
ferred, as it has a lighter flavor
India cotfees, formerly known as NJ
mingo, also the finer grades OF j.
mostly go to the aristocrats OF Z,
Cuba coffee does not come into our u
at all. The old fashioned Sumatn
ceived here uuder the name of Ji1
the timer grades of Rio are most in Il
Costa Rica is choice coffee, rankili
in popular estimation, but the supply
is limited, and Englishmen get the d
1t. Mocha (from the Arabian Gl
brought into Alden from the surNl
country and reaches our market il
quantities, though more considerabi
is usually supposed.
The leading firms in the New YOh ke
trade number about a dozen, some i;
are roasters, including SchmellinsEl h
u Co., b. G. Arnold g. Co., Nj
Phelps & Co., Samuel Wilde, Of :.
street, Pupke s. Reid, and Others, ~
whom the jObbing trade is supplied Y
Very handsome fortunes ma, bss
in New York by thosa who handle 70
including not only importers and II
but those who prepare the berry foi c
by various processes, such as e VI
roasting and grinding. There ars h,
five leading brokers, each of WHOM I
from $4,000 to $4,000 per ann !,
though they receive only from one IA
to half of one per cent, when thsI NV
the cargo, as is often the case, th '. !
makes a big item. Of the class fH ,e
toned who are in the business, b
some twelve or fifteen firms, some Of pun
each handle oOffees valued at $2,O0
annum or even more, and the extent th,
roasting is done may be Judged b
fact that houses thus engaged in stV
stances turn out twenty tons weei
The fact is, the American people
becoming a nation of coffee drink Z
singular as the statement may at
pear, this result is attributed in
degree to the late war. Every sOa
his coffee ration, and it was in y hse
that thousands of men first acquire kPl
tor coffee, SO that within the last ii
the increased consumption of the az Rsp
been very rapid. In Germany, tm
consequence of the Franco Germ \,
coffee drinking has become mort r.,
than ever before, for q similar ~
Hence We may account in part fol =
vance which has everywhere takeH ml
the price of coffee, the rate of pr u
not having increased according 10 pss
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Reducing the tariff on coffee did pa
the anticipated effect-it did not rst
and the action thus beat
Congress is pronounced o great mi n
the producer raised his price in h i
The consumer, thers 10 Or
stead of assisting in a llquidatiS IN
debt. only helps to er ept
planter in Brazil, Java, Ceylon ~,
Domingo. The consumer. it j. ~,
never felt the tax; it was only "tht sl .s!
the bulls horn."-Nep York Cd 'sof
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