Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-03-02
COFFEE POT AND TEA URN
Important Part They Play in
Comfort of Humanity.
War-BOund European Nations Expo
rienctng Shortage In the Twin
iiRrbingcrs Of DIR. Throughout
Civilized World.


'heir traoe win neiEhoor'ns neutral por.'
restricteu' t"ere must De certain sio''-
age IN the lands OF the war-pound powers
III YEA ana GORGE 'he Twin haroihee,S u
Gay throughout the clVilizeu world WIN
the exception OF RUSSIA. all parts OF hu-
aoes this nonntrv rho pnesisn 5av mo-.
gins. and stceps. and ends in tea. The
German day begins in coffee and ends in
tea and beer. In Austria, as I'm France,
the day runs from a not of coffee to a
demi-tasse. In Turkey, coffee takes the
place of the soda fountain and the saloon.
beginning and ending all things. A short
age in these two most widely accepted
drinks must work a considerable discount
upon comfort" In these words the Ma
tional Geographic society begins n pleas
ing little story of the coffee pot and the
tea urn in their relations to the European
war and to the comfort of humanity. The
story then goes on:
"The people of the world annually con-
sumo more than two and one-half billion
pounds of coffee-enough to load A. train
OF cars reaching from Philadelphia To
Pittsburg. Three-fourths of this is grown
in Brazil, n country that has become rich
from its coffee industry alone. Europe
and North America bear approximateIy
the same relation to the consumption of
coffee that Brazil does to its production.
these two continents using nearly four
fifths of all the coffee the world produces.
HOLLAND is GREATEST COFFEE
DRINKING. NATION
.r,o,,., +.
,,,,. ' .i 20 .ne s,ea'eS' coiiee-urinN =
n pI'nus per capita alihuaiIv, "niie we use
,r ouiu'' germany 10 pouiios. AUS
1-,.1e 80 pouius' ailu inc ohi.ed
- - pouiu' vi" 'iie o'heF
iia''u' we use Tess IMAM one pound OF tea
e"p''a' ""e'e '"e C"iteu hiheoom
uso' "edr's seven pousns' canada IS
10 HhSlish anu ohe-third
iiVd" III i's use Oh co1iee ana tea;
!, SHOWS oecioeu preference Tor tea but
Trims iess Oh IL than the mother coun-
tr!' making UP the dllterence with coffee.
q roc,i,,ihIo e,,,a,,,,t,. -. ~ 'No why
THE coffee plant is n shrub which I'm.
der cultivation. grows from four r. s,x
feet high. In its wild state # grows tbree
or four times as high az in its cultivated
state. The dwarfinp OF the nlant In
creases the crop and facilitates nick
ing The leaves are Of a fresh ereen roll
or; the flowers are white and have an odor
strongly resembling Jasmine.
1.-THE green coffee berry henry Of conn
merce is nothing more nor lose than tha
seeds of the coffee cherry These Cher.
ries' turn crimson on rincninr ,rbev .ro
then pickcd. the p,,lp is taken ofr NV ma
chiperv. and two husks which liz betveen
the pulp and the seeds Themselves are re :
moved TIL coffee has to he thoroughly
dried before the husks can he taken OF
and IN rnonv n,.pt,tiors ,haro 40 ,,,,,o,.
acres of concrete floors for this drv,n,
process.
when run through machfnerv fo- tho
removal of the busks. tbese 1atter ora
blown away like chafr, and tho coffea
grains are run over sleeves so arranged as
to grade them and bag them according IN
size, ready to be shipped tn the vor,rs
markets
Tt1r, r.pourNc, M, mr..