The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-10-23
but they are hardly ever absent from the
tree itself which may be said to be a per-

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J petual bearer. So it is that the coffee
plant is putting forth blossoms while the
| fruit itself is coming to maturity, as those
berries which ripen are gathered almost
J any and every season of the year, though
: the great harvests are gathered at inter.
vals of twice or three times year.
| The fruit itself when ripe resembles
cherry, the feshy portion surrounding
the seed being very sweet and palatable
1t is at first red and then dark purple, the
bright red showing in such contrast te
the green as to make the nelds look very
beautiful.
Every one of these cherries or fruits
contain two seeds, their fiat sides being
opposed to each other in the centre OF
the meat or pulp, and are separated by g
thin layer of something resembling tissue
paper, but which is very tough mem
brane, and which not only separates the
seeds, but still wraps around them to
hold them close together.
The fruit is picked as are cherries and
dried, when the pulp itself becomes q
pod which must be removed before the
seeds are ready for market.
In some countries the fruit is picked
by hand at intervals during the season OF
harvest. ...-.
In Arabia and some portions of Brazil
it is allowed to remain on the trees till
thoroughly ripe, when the trees are shak.
en- and the fruit falls upon cloths spread
upon the ground.
The two seeds inside of the pulp are
male and female, the male seed when
planted producing more trees, while the
female seeds bring forth nothing.
In Brazil and some portions of India,
the curing and preparing of coffee for
market is performed by spreading the
fruit to the thickness of several inches on
smooth beds or surfaces under the heat
of the sun, so that fermentation sets in
and the entire mass becomes anything
but pleasant to taste or smell. After a
time the fermentation ceases, the mois-
ture disappears, when the dried fruit is
shoveled or passed between wooden roll
ers, and sometimes pounded, as clothes
are pounded in a barrel, with wooden
pestles until the pulp is broken, after
which it is entirely washed away. Next
comes the separating of the tough mem
brane SO that the seeds can be separated,
which is done by passing the seed be-
tween heavy rollers which tear and prick
and pull this membrane to pieces, SO
that it becomes as chaff which is remov-
ed by winnowing, as wheat is cleaned by
running it through tanning MILL
Coffee was introduced into Persia in
the year 875. It's growth was attempted
and made success in Africa about the
fifteenth century.
Originally it was popular drink of
lawyers, students, and those persons
whose occupations required them to be
up at night. Gradually It's use extended
over the country. For long time the
properties of the berry were kept secret
by those who wished to perform an un-
usual amount of mental work.
Coffee was not publicly sold in Con-
stantinople until 1864. 1t found it's way
to Venice In 1915. A Greek servant of a
Turkish merchant opened the first coffee
house in 1862, while the first one in Eng
land was opened the year previous at
Oxford by Jew named JACOB, who, at
tie time he established his store, began
to send men and women out along the
various streets and into the places about
there, some of them advertising this won
derful berry, while others were employ
ed to caution the people against its use,
thereby creating an excitement and de-
mand therefor, so that from the sale of
the coffee the man took in large amount
of the property of other persons, thereby
putting his Investment where ii would do
the most good to himself.
Many persons do not like coffee. With
some it does not agree, but with the gen.
erality of the human race it furnishes a
something which the human system
Graves for, and therefore demands, so
that it's uss may be considered as one of
the blessings of this life, and which bless
ings the people are always justified in OBJ
taining all they can.
The difference in quantity between the
coffee imported into this country and that
sold Is remarkable. OF thirty-four sam
pies Of ground coffee lately analyzed,
thirty-one were adulterated, more or less,
with chioory. Roast corn was in twelve
and beans and potato -four in one. Chic
CRY itself Is often adulterated as coffee.
Horse chestnuts, acorns, wheat, red
earth, carrots, parsnips, oak bark, tan,
mahogany sawdust, and Venetian red
enter frequently into the composition. A
company which dessicates cocoanuts in
this city finds market for its shells at
the coffee mills, which grind and mix
them with coffee. Peanuts and burnt
sugar are also used for adulteration, and
unground coffee is by no means exempt
from foreign particles.
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1t is proposed to propagate spongee
on the FLORIDA coast by cutting the live
sponge into small pieces, attaching them
| To niaces of rock and sinking than 70