. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 244 COFFEE COFFEE about the third year, giving light crops until the iifth or sixth year. The trees blossom at least three times a year, the fore blossoming, the large blossoming, and the after blossoming. These occur in the months of February, March, April and May, according to location. Generally after seven or. Fig. 351. Method of drying coffee in the sun in drawers that are slid under a house when there is no sunshine. eight months the berries are ripe.
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 244 COFFEE COFFEE about the third year, giving light crops until the iifth or sixth year. The trees blossom at least three times a year, the fore blossoming, the large blossoming, and the after blossoming. These occur in the months of February, March, April and May, according to location. Generally after seven or. Fig. 351. Method of drying coffee in the sun in drawers that are slid under a house when there is no sunshine. eight months the berries are ripe. This throws the harvesting in the last four months of the year. The berries ripen unevenly, so that the plantation must be gone over several times. The picking is done by hand. The yield per tree varies greatly, according to the care given. One pound of dry coffee per tree is a general estimate, although this may be greatly increased. In Porto Rico the pickers are paid by the meas- ure, which is called " almud " and should contain twenty liters. About six or seven cents are paid for a measure. Twenty liters of berries are equal to about five pounds of coffee ready for the market. The expense of picking is $ to $ per 100 pounds of coffee. In Hawaii, the cost of picking and transporting the coffee to the mill averages about three and one-half to four and one-half cents per pound of market coffee. Handling the product. When the berries are picked they are subjected to one of two processes. The berries may be dried at once and later put through machines called "huU- ers," to extract the seed; or they may be " pulped," that is, have the outer fleshy coat removed, before drying. In Porto Rico, pulping is usually done at once. The pulping machine is driven by hand, water or other power. Sometimes the separated pulp is used as a fertilizer. The beans are collected in wooden or cement tanks in which they remain to fer- ment upwards of thirty hours,
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