| Show Coffee Again Is Making Headlines in World News Brazils Brazil's Changed Policy Mystifies Producers Washington D. D C. C C. Coffee Coffee famous famous fa fa- mou bean that contributes to millions mil lions of American breakfasts is making world headlines again Brazil Bra Dra all zil worlds world's largest producer of coffee coffee cof fee has reduced her export tax on the commodity and world coffee colIee producers pro are wondering how this may affect their fortunes More than coffee colIee trees three fifths of all there are Inthe in n inthe the world are busily producing coffee cof cot fee In n Brazils Brazil's cool uplands and 38 33 or more other countries and colonies colo cols ales nies are adding to the world crop which reached tons In n the thelast thelast I last year crop-year enough to make two and a half halt pounds for every human I used as fertilizer on Brazilian farms Leading Producers in New World In torn the year crop-year of 37 1936 Brazil Bra Dra Brazil zil alone produced a million bags more of coffee colIee than th the world consumed consumed con con- in the same period The standard bag of coffee colIee weighs pounds World coffee production In that year crop-year was bags in excess of the amount consumed Leading coffee producers next to Brazil are Colombia Netherlands East Indies Ven Venezuela zuela Guatemala and Salvador Once Called Intoxicant Coffee trees thrive best on land from 1000 to feet above sealevel sea sealevel sealevel level In n the tropics They are evergreen evergreen ever ever- evergreen green and blossom two or three times a year Coffee blossoms are pure white and fragrant and the berries are dark red very much like cherries The coffee bean is the seed of this berry Strangely enough the leaves of the coffee tree contain more eat caf t caf-t fene the stimulating alkaloid found found In coffee colIee than coffee beans In some regions for this reason a sort of tea as been made from coffee leaves but I is h not an especially pleasant drink Because of ol the stimulating properties prop of coffee it was once considered considered con can an intoxicant among orthodox orthodox orthodox ortho ortho- dox and therefore was a forbidden drink But Dut coffee calfee nevertheless increased in popularity among the Arabian Moslems and became as closely identified with Arabia as is tea with China Until the close of the Seventeenth Seventeenth Seventeenth Seven Seven- century practically all aU of the worlds world's supply of coffee calfee came from Yemen in n southern Arabia and the name of Mocha a Yemenite seaport seaport seaport sea sea- port became a sort of synonym for coffee Later coffee calfee culture spread to Java and for a time this East Indies island led in n production so that its name also became a synonym synonym synonym nym for coffee |
