The Washington times., 1916-11-04
THE TINES DAILY MAGAZINE PAGE
Mochaand Java on
The Same Tree

Sure Mocha and and Java, well mixed and
Is coffee always have ordered for
mine,
My mother before me. my grandmother,
Haye always insisted on this blended
brew,
But now must shatter traditions, ! see.
For Mocha and Java I've picked from
l. one tree
$40 PAULo. Brazil, Nov. 3.
This certainly is going to be an aw-
e full blow to the domestic coffee
connoisseurs. The epicures who
smack smack their lips and eftol the elusive
mingles with the Mocha.
Indeed, II furnished me grounds for
surprise when found the Mocha and
the Java not only growing on the same
lomily tree, but even on the same
The best way to settle the coffee
question Is to take nights train trip
from RIO to Sac Paulo. The state OF
Sac is the greatest coffee growing coun-
try in the world. Its capital. the city Of
cago OF South America" a two hours
run by train brings us to the little
town OF Campinas right out In the
midst OF the open rolling coffee country.
us by auto out through the coffee
plantations. He Is king by my own
clubbing. This successful North Amer
lean from Lawrence. Kan, chose to
make light Of my appellation, just as he
see he controls the electric light plant
and the traction line In Cappinas. az
well as In the thirteen other small
brazilian towns. Surely a neat little
! crown OF ihcandescent bulbs Is not
I've heard OF people painting the towr
red. but they would be helpless to In
carnadine further the country to Sac
Raulo. All the soil Ia Of marvellous
redness shading to vivid crim ss,, a. an e
startiingly reminiscent OF San Diego
county, California. Showing a Hiber'
nian tendency these hills all have tn,
| green OF the coffee trees above the rae
soil As, far as the eye, can see tn,
the distance. Some plantations boas
OF over a million trees.
To speak OF coffee trees Is very mis-
leading. In reality they are like moth
that the leaves are smaller. The cof
fee berry itself looks like a cherr,
turning from green to n bright cherr!
red through It's different stages OF ripe
ness. Unlike the cherry. however, In
spersed with leaves. closely fastened
without stems. to the branches OF TIN
tree. II has little pulp and no Juice ant
the coffee beans proper form the hear
OF the berry like a cherry split int
halves.
And here is where the difference be
tween the Mocha and Java comes In
Not being a prize student OF botany
don't know the technical terms, eu
something happens to the stamen .
some coffee blossoms so tina. they max
stunted beans and round OF shape
which are called Java, while the perfec
Mocha beans are large and oval In con
tour. SO it's just the subtle dlfferenc
in their shapes you taste when they ar
all ground up together.
In coffee picking time even the Titles
tots help In stripping all the berrie
off right down the branch. AS tn
leaves get In somewhat on the sener,
\ strip, after the harvest, the poor ol
coffee tree looks q bit denuded.
The berries are stripped of and allow
ed to fall on the ground where they ar
raked up and carried away In baskets
The next step Is to spread them ot
on an open cement court to dry In tn
sun. 81 a.
When the berries resell shriveled an
dried to the consistency. OF husks the
are put through successive machine
that husk them and separate the Moch
beans from the Java. They finally Ian
in sacks ready to be shipped down
Santos and exported.