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Show Brazilian Co, The bulk of the entire coffee product prod-uct comes from Brazil, which has a peculiarity of ir own. These coffees I are harsh and rank, as compared with I the milder kinds. It was estimated that Brasdl once furnished 83 per cent of the entire coffee product of the world. There have been of late years one or two partial failures of the crop in Brazil, which account for the high price of coffee cof-fee here. You will probably remember that coffee was very low from '84 to '87; in fact the prices were so very low that Brazilian planters did not have the berries ber-ries picked, it bringing them in debt. In consequence, they allowed their plantations planta-tions to run down, which in part accounts ac-counts for the present shortage, Chicago Chica-go Herald. |