Here, it is unpacked and sent to the mill, which, by means of heavy rollers, detaches the parchment and under silver skin, and leaves the grayish-blue berry in a state for market.

The injured grains are sorted out by women, and the coffee is packed for the last time and shipped to England.
A good and well-managed estate should produce an average crop of ten hundredweight per acre, leaving a net profit of fifteen shillings per hundredweight under favorable circumstances.

Unfortunately, it is next to impossible to make definite calculations in all agricultural pursuits: the inclemency of seasons and the attacks of vermin are constantly marring the planter's expectations.

Among the latter plagues the "bug" stands foremost.

This is a minute and gregarious insect, which lives upon the juices of the coffee tree, and accordingly is most destructive to an estate.