Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-05

plants and after that by larger trees
The result Is they grow tail and splnd-
LINK. with trunks like pipe stems.
Tho cofee tree begins 90 flower IN
April. soon green berries take the
place OF the blossoms, and by october
thcre liz "a wealth OF rich. rcd coffee
cherries shining out VI the green leaves.
The coffee berry lg OF just the Size Of n
cherry. II gows close To- the branch
rather than on stem, like cherry.
In each cherry are two of the half
round coffee beans Of commerce. They
are the seeds OF the cherry
Tho coffee berries do not all rlpeu NJ
tho same time. The trees must bu
picked over ana over again during the
season. and conee picking form1 enc ~
the chief industries % the island. n Is
In the picking season that most " the
poems make most Of their money. Thcy
have work at this time for from three
10 four months. and men, women and
children are seen among the bushes
picking the berries into baskets and car
rying them on TO the factory on their
heads. The little ones pick the berries
ON the lower stems. while the mon aud
women bend down the taller trees and
gather the ones higher up. The pick
Ing on many OF the plantations De- done
hy the pound. the usual price being
about a cent and half per pound, II
takes a good picker TO average iifty
pounds a day, but as the whole family
can work at II the rCun does fairly
woli Ia the coffee regions az picking
time.
IN THE COFFEE FACTORIES.
and the Porto Rlcan coffee factories
quite different from those " lifuzlL
The most of them are rude IN the cx-
tromc They have not the fine ma
chinory nor the economical methods OF
the llrazilians.
In brazil the berries are first mashed
10 pulp, which takes on their flesh.
The seeds are takon out ana dried In
the sun. and within % short time arc
on their way 90 market. There the ma
chinury Is run by steam. Here oxen and
men take the place or machinery and
the methods OF preparation Tor the mar
kct are slow and expensive.
The berries are hrst stored away In
the great plantation house or factory
OF tho planter. The buildings are rude
In the extreme. They are usually high
up ON piles. and 70 arranged that Hat
boxes, some OF which are aH large nH n
city lot can be- rolled at will In and out
from under tho floor. These great trays
ATE used Tor drying the coffco beans
after the flesh has been taken on them.
II lH necessary that the concc should
not be- rainod upon while drying, ana
the showing Il under the building pro-
tgcts u from the heavy dowa % the
night
In some places the cofrc IL dried on
cement floors, but Il requires from two
weeks 90 month 90 properly cure ".
and such floors have 90 Do covered up
at time of rain. and the coffee o. often
taken IN az night
The getting tho seeds out NJ the berry
~ interesting. This % done by a wheel
or roller which moves over the berries
20 adjusted that it viii mash the bor-
fiHH hut NOT crush tho HnaIH A. Hu..1
a1 r,D seeds have been freed from the
pulp they are dried. They are stili cDv-
urgd with two thin shells which must
be- removed before they are ready Tor
shipment. This IL done IN hulling mills.
and the beans arc then polirhnd by run.
ming over and through thcm great
wheels faced with tin. Tho wheels arc
Ho adjusted that they do not iniurc the
coffee beans, but By rubbing them over
md over FURNISH them 90 that thry
shine as NJ vanished. In some mills
colorIng matter II added 20 give tho
coffee u blue tint
Much Of the hulllng Of the coffee ~
done Ia great mortnrH made of wood,
men standing before them and letting
great peatlos drop on tho coffee, thus
breaking the shells. These wooden
murturB arc OF about the height OF your
have done not n little coffee huliing my
self by experimenting with them.
AMONG THE COFFEE soRTERs.
After the concc has been dried and