Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — ‘Pure Mocha.” [ARTICLE]

‘Pure Mocha.”

New York Times. If the official returns of the coffee trade are to be trusted—and presumably they v® not greatly in error—the coffee consuming public of this country has been for a long time past very much deluded. There are a multitude of people in this part of the world who are laboring under the belief that the beverage which they drink at breakfast and, possibly after dinner, is Mocha coffee. Their grocer tells them that the article he sells is “pure Mocha,” and they have bo means of knowing that he is deceiving them, if, indeed, he has not been deceived himself. Some, with a peculiar fastidiousness, insist upon havingia mixture, and want onehalf or one-third Java coffee—a request which the grocer seemingly complies with: that is, he takes the coffee from two separate compartments. Now, the last completed returns of the coffee production* of the world are made up to the year 1878. In that year the .estimated growth was 1,082,112,600 pounds of which Brazil produced 497,127,300 pounds, or nearly one-half. Next came the Dutch East Indian possessions, where the crop amounted t 0201,609,200 pounds; while Ceylon, South Africa and the West Indies furnished nearly all the rest. Arabia, it is true, appears on the list, but its total growth, the Mocha jlistrict and the rest of the country combined, was only about 4,600,000 pounds —that is, not quite Jof 1 per cent, of the growth of the world. When it is considered that coflee is extensively used in Arabia, that Mocha comes within the possessions of Turkey, a country peopled with coffeedrinkers, and that we have no direct communication with Arabia, one may hesitate before he accepts the current Mocha fiction of the grooers. It is highly probable that not 10,000 pound? of the article are brought into this country in the course of a year, an amount that would not furnish a day’s supplv for the inhabitants of this city. We all, of course, know the flavor of Mocha coffee, and hence can not be deceived, though in reality probably not one in a thousand of us ever tasted it. *