. Coffee; from plantation to cup. A brief history of coffee production and consumption. With an appendix containing letters written during a trip to the coffee plantations of the East and through the coffee consuming countries of Europe. Coffee. HAYTI AND SAN DOMINGO. 14S the northern limit of the coffee-growing belt. The country is mountainous, its elevated ranges being capable of cultivation nearly to their summits. The climate is especially well adapted to the growth of the coffee tree, the cultivation of which is being extended in the eastern part of the island, called St. Domingo, in cont
. Coffee; from plantation to cup. A brief history of coffee production and consumption. With an appendix containing letters written during a trip to the coffee plantations of the East and through the coffee consuming countries of Europe. Coffee. HAYTI AND SAN DOMINGO. 14S the northern limit of the coffee-growing belt. The country is mountainous, its elevated ranges being capable of cultivation nearly to their summits. The climate is especially well adapted to the growth of the coffee tree, the cultivation of which is being extended in the eastern part of the island, called St. Domingo, in contradistinction to the French or western part, which comprises the republic of Hayti. The many and rapid political changes, which have been more or less of a revolutionary character, have tended to retard the development of coffee-plantations. The cul- tivation of the tree is principally carried on by the natives, who are so careless in the preparation of the bean that much of the product comes to market very stony and dirty, thus reducing its value far below the standard which its drinking qualities would otherwise ensure. Improved machineiy is employed to a very limited extent. Efforts are being put forth to induce an exten- sion of coffee-culture, and to secure greater care in preparing the coffee for market, with a design to regain the ground lost during years of civil commotion. The bulk of the crop goes to Europe, and a considerable part of that received here is re-exported thither, where it is carefully picked over, selected, and graded. It reaches market in all sorts of bags, the buyer receiving actual tare. The bean is larger than the Rio bean, approaching very closely in style to ordinary Jamaica. In color it varies, some of it being classed with what is termed white coffee. The receipts of St. Domingo coffee at the port of New York have been for ten years as follows: Importation of St. Domingo Coffee into the United States {At- Icmtio Coast), 1866 to 1881. 1866. 1867.
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