Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-02

Noir comme le diable, chaud comnlt, fenfer, pur comme un ange, dOux comme Pamour.-Talleyrand
 It is appropriate that the most famous formula for coffee. should have come from the lips of the greatest diplomat. for the influence of the care and the coffee house on the destinies of nations aas been tremendous. A centers of international intrigue. .lr miniature business exchanges, and as the haunt of rank and fashion. then importance can be easily traced from almost the Middle Ages down to the present time.
 The epicure sitting on the terrace of cafe cap. however, scarcely ap, preciate the care and delicacy of treatment necessary to the bean from the time of seed to tae very cup.
 YOUNG PLANT.
 With the exception of the actuaI preparation of the beverage no period Is so important as that of the cultisa- ton of the young plant, says The Pail Mall Gazette. The nursery oI the cafetala is the birthplace of for tune and ruin. Except for severe cn- matic disasters after transplantation the whole future of the plantation ce- bends on the care with which tue young seeds are reared. Inadequate feeding, too much water, too little water, all are resultant in later years of weakness or disease
 Once the seed takes hold of tne soil 1t grows with great rapidity and throws out abundant yerdue At the end of year it has grown to about two feet in height, and its shoots arc beginning to form wood. Then amidst ceremony and infinite care the young ster is transplanted to the plantation, 10 take it's rank amidst the giants and veterans IL is no exaggeraticn to speak of veterans. for the coffee tree bears fruit up to fifty years. by which time not only is it itself eX- hausted. but the ground must be abal4- doned for some two years to permA 1t to recupeTate. The coffee is an evergreen, and grows from five 10 twenty feet in height Generally it has only one trunk of moderate size. but there are also species which sIv~ on six stalks. The leaveE are Ions and smooth. and dark green in coloi The blossoms are white and grow iil the axis of the branches, and the fruits hang in clusters on very short stalks or none at all. When ripe the fruit is the color of strawberry, and consists of a pod Inside this pod ie soft yellow pulp, embedded in which as two seeds, the two halves of a circle. lying face to face. separated | only by very thin parchment skin
 The pulp surrounding the seeus | hardens when the berry is ripe. There ] is no season for the blossom, wAicn can be seen in the tree during the whole year, and it is no uncommon sight tS see blossoms and fruit in all ! stages of Tipeness on the same tree The coffee tree will grow in any eli mate free from frost, and the soil must be neither too damp liut tuu 1 dry, either extreme being fatal. Gen erally they are planted on the slope | of nils, where the drainage is natuI l ally good but they will also grUa on the level ground when this is prop | erly drained.
 FIRST FRUIT.
 The trees bear fruit the third or | fourth year, or the second or third after removal from the nursery. Dur | ing the first year or two of fruit .he l crop is small. but from the sixth (. the fifteenth year the berries ar, abundant relapsing after that period 10 a lower average of production. In Brazil, which is now the principal grower of coffee. the rendimiento ,s | about four pounds per annum pen tree. In Porto Rico, Cuba and otner 1 coffee countries it is only one pound per tree.
 The harvest is in April, and for two months the cafetala is a very hive O. industry. The picking is done by men and women, black and white. Carry ing great baskets, they pick the fruit from the trees with marvellous speed. On large plantations there are auuuaI competitions 10 find the best picker This champion is entered in a pro yincial contest, which is fought out with the greatest eagerness, and amidst scenes of the widest exc,te- ment. The title of State Champion is very much sought after. and large sums are wagered both by the cuIn- petitors themselves and also by the.r fellow workers. At the foot Of the DIr