The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-10-06
PART IL OF {. S. CONsUL'S REPORT
Conditions of Soil ami CIimate-What Gives
Best Returns Action Of Pain and Winds.
Plants Grown From Seeds How Bed
is Prepared and Plants Treated. Etc.
CContinued from September 29)

try, but it was originally brought from
the West Indies about 1890 Still, i
was not until 1918 that the plant was
properly cultivated, when Don Juan A
Gomez, the benefactor of Cordoba, de-
monstrated TO the world that Mexico
truly had the soil and climate essential
TO the raising of coffee.
The tree is cultivated in the cantons
of Acayucan, Chicontepec, Cosamaloa-
pam, Coatepec, CordOva, Huatusco, ia
Iacingo, Jalapa, Minatitlan, Misantla,
Orizaba, Ozuluama, Papantla, Tuxpan,
Tuxtla, and Zongolica, State of Vera
cruz; in the municipalities of Balan-
can, Cardenas. Comalcalco, Cundua
can, Frontera, Huimanguillo, Jalapa,
Jalpa, Macuspana, Nacajuca, Paraiso,
San Juan Bantista, Tacotalpa, and Te-
apa, Tabasco; in the departments Of
Chiapa, Chilon, Cometan, La Libertad,
Mezcalapa, Pichucalco, Simojovel, So
conusco, and Tuxtla, Gutierrez; in the
districts of Choapam, Cuicatlan, Ejutla,
Ixtlan, Jameltepec, Juchitlan, Juquila,
Juxtlahuaca, Miahuatlan, Pochutla,
Tehuantepec, Teotitlan, TlaXiaco, Tux
tepec, Villa Alta, and Yautepec, 0axa-
ca; in the districts of Atlixco, Chiautla
Huanehinango, Matamoros, Tepeji,
Tehuacan, Tetela, Tezintlan, Tlatlau
pui. Zacapoaxtla, and Zacatlan, Pueb
La; in the districts of Hueyutla, Jacala,
Molango. Tenango, Tulancingo, and
Zacualtipan, Hidalgo; in the munich
pality of Jalpam, Queretaro; in the
partidos of Cuidad de Wales, Hidalgo,
Tamazunchale, and Tancanhuitz, San
Louis Potosi; in the districts of Cuer-
navaca, Jonacatepec, Morelos, Tete-
Gala, and Yautepec, M0relos; in the
partidos of Sultepec, TemascaitepeG.
Tenancingo, and Vale de Bravo, Mex
leo; in the districts of Alarcon, Aida
ma, Allende, Bravos, Galcana, and
Morelos. Guerrero; in the districts of
Apatzingan, Ario, Coalcoman, Jiquil-
pam, Tacambaro, Uruapan, Zanora,
and Titacuaro, Michoacan, in the can
tons of Autlan, Cuidad GuZman Qua
dalajara, La Barca, Mascota, Sayula,
and Tequila, Jalisco; and in the de-
partments of Ahuacatlan, Acaponeta,
Compastela, and Tepic, Territory of
Tepic; and in the districts Of Alvarez,
Centro, Colima, and Medellin, Colima.
COFFEE CROP OF 1895.
The total production of coffee in
1895 was 24,5S7 ,959 Kilograms (53, $685.
500 pounds, distributed among the
different States as follows: Chiapas,
1,997,6S2; Colima, 33S,2S3; Guerrero,
3,52S; Hidalgo, 400, ,455; Jalisco, 1885,
ZIG; Mexico, 1O6,S79; Michoacan, 477,-
ia; Morelos, SO, ,132; Oaxaca, 9,7S4,443;
Puebla, 1,278,772; Queretaro, 4417; San
Louis Potosi, 56S, lis; Tabasco, 26S,201;
Tepic, 6S ,237; and Veracruz, S,977,4S2.
The production of the country repre-
sents more than 50,0O0,00O trees. Since
1892, the States which have increased
their plantations more than twofold
are Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, and
Puebla The ratio increase in the total
production for the last two or three |
years is about SO per cent. annually. |
The consumption keeps pace with the
production. As railroads open up new /
markets and transportation becomes |
cheaper, the working classes are be-
coming habituated to the daily use of /
the aromatic bean. Moreover, the ex-
portation is increasing in ratio every |
year The United States imported |
from Mexico in 1888 more than 1000 |
tons; in $780, 1888 tons; in 1891, A.
044 tons; in 1894, 16,0S0 tons; and in
1895, 1881 tons.
VARITIES OF MEXICAN COFFEE.
The coffee plant mostly cultivated in
Mexico is a subvariety of the mocha,
or Coffea arabica This is an ever
green, partaking more of the nature of
shrub, which, in state of cultiva-
ton, varies in height from to Z feet.
The range of this species is at eleva-
tions of from 1000 to 5000 feet above
sea level, south of latitude % deg.
north, where the temperature does not
fall below So deg F., still, the most
favorable climate for it would be where
the temperature does not fall below
90 deg. nor rise above so deg. in the
shade; as to humidity, there should +
be from rs to $50 inches of rain the
year, and the plant should be irrigated
during the dry season, if required.
The myrtle kind, which is consider
ed as second in quality, is also exten-
sively cultivated. 1t is very similar to +,
the java, and is distinguished from the
mocha variety by the leaf being larger
and the corolla smaller. This plant is
harder than the mocha kind and win
stand higher temperature; it is mostly
cultivated in the Cordoba district. It
VIII thrive well at an elevation of from
500 to 5000 feet above sea level.
II IS the opinion Of the writer that
Ldberian coffee would thrive in the
hot climates OF Yucatan, Campeachy.
1abasco, and Yeracruz. This is the