The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-13

Nopyrlght 1901, by Frank G. CARPENTER
Anarang Java-From the coffee island of
- WTl'e these coffee notes for the great
4 p coffee lovers on earth. The Irish are
'noas as whisky drinkers, the English as
q aiihKefs' the Germans as beer drinkers.
- french as wine drinkers, but the Yam.
/. w 'e4a the World as coffee drinkers We
@lsume almost half of all the coffee grown
4 s,ss sartl We annually use about eight
r r1,a million pounds or on the average
IN lnah len pounds a year for every
rs wnman and child amongst us. Our
ae az wy IN 1900 was more than S52, 600,
nr.h ~ Slllll ten years we have spent. as
;,ss az Ssl9'Wo'UpH for coffee alone We
49,. .ns Dest Of the Java coffee The eX-
s S.sga. aere tell me that the cream of the
\ sy5iSael q thls island and Sumatra goes
nlteu STATES, and that the most of
hIba sqch hlgh prices that it sells only
II ~ Din, we take the bulk of the cof-
Il, mnab ~ ana OF recent years are buy
,snn.Ie en rom Central America. Our CON
y asn Il on the Increase. and there is
& fs 9d mat We shall he spending from
\ h dn,,ag 70 SlWWOVD annually for cof-
4s''Hs the rest of our National life,
Coffee in Our Colonies.
e't" s matter Is being studied by the agrl-
A department in Washington. and
a-'a tue next few years experimental
~ plantations viii be established in
q. n1Sallan Islands, in Porto Rico. Sa-
ois .la the Philippines. AT present the
po,,. ~ producing country we have Is
ie ~ A.G i, 1t grows some of the best cot.
iais nv .ae World-cofTce which Is better
NlIeh S ou average product of Java, but
tots evnaiis 10 tue lack of knowledge as
81 h soil hi =
paeBdss 4l " Porto Rico produces "a. 006I 900
NIGH ~ coffee year, and It's product
lok. iuaue ten times as great as it Is
% r rsli Hawaiian wall Islands are Just beginning
isies tbereeV NY. mere are about 3UUUJ
and M ~ which are now being developed.
DtllsS carnations are paying enormously
tat 800 stay In Honolulu | was told
tie ntest raising netted 40 per cent on
laval S s5 and that the Island OF
hst moro !, Slreaay extensive estates and
ia M southern part of the Philippines.
eined S sss,ald Of Jolo. | found a German
Or "a SNutk who had plaDration of 35.-
lin sn5 ! went over the Droperty with
tees are houhu every tree loaded The
hekipr puly years old, but they were
hh ne I'M with fruit, and Mr.. Shnck
i cents 't ne mad already been offered
raTeled ~, pouhd for his cron. have
q Br,,ils through the biggest coffee districts
lars rsr. Mexico and Porto Rico. but /
9ee on u seen such luXuriant trees as
d WI le island OF Jolo. The pIanta-
es.e,s, a Sgl out Of the forest. and lis pro
ti ntt,s eil ne that It was raised with
ldipelaso' uI!l'lf9eon. Most OF the Sulu
ns n,sss9 y adapted 10 coffee raising. /
a'hso mi NJ trees an Zamboanga, on Min
s'sll n sud ! Doubt not coffee plantations
(. Vol successful throughout thai island
L.len ms ~, u me Islands farther north.
liointer ~ one time noted as coffee
"a hIySt 0u, me trees were destroyed by
Ave BEEN W recent years the scientists
ss,,ssss ssa experimenting to counteract this
if.alppne n ~ me Probability Is that the
! IKE BAR ts, =, as VII some dag produce
Z s9' People. '''p'''oo' POUNDS uSeu
Yo Old Government Java.
hasa, remember that one Of the hest
lr,n ee coffee Of tho past was "old
sssee ri aSsH : This came from the
Va is,s ss,ssn'ations owned by Holland on
for many years the goYeen-