The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
CARUCAGE
Etymology
Noun
carucage (plural carucages)
(historical) A form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England.
(obsolete) The act of ploughing.
Source: Wiktionary
Car"u*cage, n. Etym: [LL. carrucagium (OF. charuage.), fr. LL. carruca plow, fr. L. carruca coach.]
1. (Old Eng. Law.)
Definition: A tax on every plow or plowland.
2. The act of plowing. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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