Show IT he The he Coff Coffee ee of Commerce I Early i in the spring the coffee tree breaks forth in a mass of bloom but the complete covering of of delicate delicate white blossoms disappears In a v very very ry few days A A period of ot four four or or or five months must elapse before the next period Th Then n as the bean Is firmly attached to the branch and the region I not la-not t to heavy storms the crops are not depleted t d by windfalls the trees showing almost as complete a covering of fruit as of blossoms The picking is done by a l as large force p g peasants ach Bach with basket slung over his shoulder in a short time The fruit Is hauled In lumbering ox-carts ox of mediaeval pattern to th the patios or drying yards The latter are literally huge cement floors which form admirable admirable admirable able tennis courts when not being put putto putto putto to their legitimate use use- and on a large plantation n will vim cover several acres cr Here the berries are spread out ut In In a layer a few inches deep and then hoed up up Into rows being continually lly turned so as to pr present sent all fruit to the sun B By a a new new method the coffee is dried by y a machine which which resembles re resembles a huge roaster and acts In much the same manner manner The former fruit has now become a a tough black and wrinkled n nondescript resembling pebbles pebbles pebbles peb peb- bles as much as anything and with pebbles it is more more or less mixed Fr From m here It Is shoveled into the large ter fer fermenting tanks where it is covered with water and allowed to remain some time being continually stirred an and the having gj extremely water water drawn draws off oU off at It From this process it emerges completely completely com com- cleansed of the large amount of f soft pulp which has hitherto covered it but the beans are still held face to face fac by a thin and very parch parch- ment-like ment covering which can only be removed economically y by machinery This is accomplished by a huller which breaks the beans apart and blows off the the cOv covering The impurities impurities ties ies such as black and worthless bean beans t stones and similar rubbish are then picked picked picked-o out t by hand and the coffee coffee cof cof- fee is is bagged big ready for tor shipment The roasting and grinding are always done where the coffee cortee Is to b be used |