. The South American tour : a descriptive guide. lf a million coffeetrees. A much vaster estate but too remote for many trav-elers to inspect is that of the coffee king of the world, Schmidt. Coming as a colonist to this state hehas achieved a success of which one might well be the 700,000,000 trees in the State, Col. Schmidt owns morethan one per cent, 71/2 million. On the various planta-tions live 8000 people, contented and prosperous; a schoolis provided for each village. The soil and climate of SaoPaulo are so well adapted to this industry that the crop isseveral tim
. The South American tour : a descriptive guide. lf a million coffeetrees. A much vaster estate but too remote for many trav-elers to inspect is that of the coffee king of the world, Schmidt. Coming as a colonist to this state hehas achieved a success of which one might well be the 700,000,000 trees in the State, Col. Schmidt owns morethan one per cent, 71/2 million. On the various planta-tions live 8000 people, contented and prosperous; a schoolis provided for each village. The soil and climate of SaoPaulo are so well adapted to this industry that the crop isseveral times as heavy to the acre as in most other coffeegrowing countries. A family of three or four persons cantake care of 10,000 trees and by cultivating other agriculturalproducts at the same time could live on the proceeds. In 1817 the first shipment of coffee was made from Brazil,about 6000 bags; in 1906, 13 million bags were exported,10 million being the average. The consumption of coffee inrecent years has wonderfully increased. Though generally. COFFEK 1 A/IN I) A
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