ee is grown in most of the islands, often only for
local use. Haiti produces the largest amount, the annual value of the
crop being about L500,000. Porto Rico formerly had a flourishing
industry, but it has declined owing to various causes. The interior is
still expected to be devoted largely to coffee, and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture has carried out experiments to improve
methods and ensure the cultivation of better varieties. Jamaica
produces the famous Blue Mountain Coffee, which compares favourably
with the best coffees of the world, and also ordinary or "plain
grown"; the Blue Mountain is cultivated at elevations of from 3000 to
4500 ft. Coffee usually ranks third or fourth in value amongst the
exports of the island.

_Africa_, the native country of the coffees, does not now contribute
any important amount to the world's output. In Liberia, the Gold Coast
and elsewhere on the West Coast are many plantations, but the low
prices ruling of recent years have caused coffee to be neglected for
more remunerative crops. Coffee is, however, still the principal
export of Nyasaland (British Central Africa), where it was introduced
as recently as 1894. The area under coffee has been greatly reduced,
owing partly to more attention being paid to cotton, partly to
droughts and other causes. In Somaliland and Abyssinia coffee
cultivation is of very ancient date. Two kinds are exported, Harrari
and Habashi. The former compares favourably with Mocha coffee. The
industry could be very considerably extended. In Natal, Rhodesia, &c.,
coffee is grown, but not in sufficient quantity to supply the local
demand.

_Arabia._--The name "Mocha" is applied generally to coffee produced in
Arabia. Turkey and Egypt obtain the best grades. Traders from these
countries go to Arabia, buy the crops on the trees, and supervise its
picking and preparation themselves. The coffee is prepared by the "dry
method."

_India_ is the principal coffee-growing region in the British empire,
and produces about one-fifth of the total supply of the United
Kingdom. There are some 213,000 acres under coffee, mostly in southern
India. The official report states that the production of coffee is
restricted for the most part to a limited area in the elevated region
above the south-western coast, the coffee lands of Mysore, Coorg, and
the Madras districts of Malabar and the Nilgiris, compr