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100000 pounds. From third to e.
half OF this product is produced on J.
government lands by the natives by
amt or forced cultivation" DespiS,X
the ihteriority OF the labor used in theb
production OF Dutch East Indian cof-
Zee, its quality ranks high. This may
DC Judged from the fact that our inn
port Oh coffee from Java for the yearH
lS9'-S cost on an average over 10 cents
Il pound.
though the area of successful cultf-N
walton OF coffee in India Is limited its2
culture there is rapidly increasing, andB
its annual production is now about 35-
O0oO0O pounds, of which about 80, 900 ,0oof
pounds are exported. 1t should be rel
membered that India is noted for its6
tea production rather than for itsH
coffee. Roughly speaking. it may BED
said that midas production and exportB
Of tea are four times it's production anal
export of coffee.
Ceylon, as already said. though int
many ways it is admirably fitted by6
nature to produce coffee, is giving upH
coffee culture. and, like India, turning1
It's principal attention to tea. 1t Is to-
De remarked, however. that the qualityS
OF the coffee produced both in Indlh&
ana Ceylon stands high. The averaged
value of the coffee of Ceylon imported
INTO Great Britain for 1898 was 81 cents,
80 '6".hSl ieSS tIldIl y Genus LOT tnatu
imported into Great Britain from Bra
III. The average cost of the coffee fromH
indla Tor the same year was about 20E
cents. Indeed, Indian coffee and Ceylonb
coffee are very widely sold in England
as Mocha" that is, as coffee from
Arabia.
There are no statistics to show what
amount of pure Arabian coffee comess
TO this country. Undoubtedly a good
deal that we get from that sourceI
comes to us by way of Great Britain,
Germany. etc. Alden, however, may bel
considered as the chief seaport forI
Arabia. and our import Of coffee fromb
Aden amounts to about 5000, 900 poundsu
year. For the year 1878 our AdenI
import cost us nearly 10 cents a poundp
rms shows that the coffee of Arablal
ana the coffee of Java, as exported, arel
soid at very much the same prices Butt
We must not forget that the ArabiansE
themselves tell us that the best cofreel
OF Yemen, such of it as leaves theIr9
country at ali, is generally captured byl
the coffee connoisseurs of Turkey anal
Armenia. ana that very little of 1t isl
sold Tor expectation to western count
tries.
our coffee import from the Hawailan|
isialuS is destined TO be n very consid-,
cradle matter. Since 1887 it has in-'
creased 25O-fold. The quality is supe-
~ 'A'Ni Use NiIue Ol the lnlDOTLU
has been rarely less than 20 cents andI
even III 1898 it was nearly 16 cents.
The coffee of Liberia is a Different
plant from that of Arabia, the coffee|
pant grown III most other parts of theI
ftec-producing world 1t is not sol
sensitive changes of temperature. It'll
VIII grow better in low situations. It'll
IS not easily attacked by fungus. and It'll
IS of excellent quality. In Ccylon It'll
mas been introduced with good results.
Attempts have been made by the del
partment of agriculture at WASHINGTON
to Introduce coffee into this country
mat is 10 say in Florida, California;
ana Texas. Especially was it hoped|
mat Liberian coffee might be grown|
here But so far the conclusion seemsI
to be that neither Arabian nor Liberian n
coffee is able to endure the frosts that.
unfortunately. sometimes occur even in
our warmest attitudes.
Notc.-The study of tho sugar pro.
duct. TO be commenced next week. will
conclude this series Of commercial
papers.
EXAMINATIONS AND CERTIFI-
At the end of the term of seventeen III
weeks. n series of questions on earh