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COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 



in 19 1 8 the Association handled the cacao from over 

 100 estates. We may expect to see more of these cacao 

 planters' associations formed in various parts of the 

 world, for they are in line with the trend of the times 



Workers on a Cacao Plantation. 

 (Messrs. Cadbury's estate in Trinidad.) 



towards large, and ever larger, unions and combinations. 

 Trinidad is also progressive in its system of agricultural 

 education and in its formation of agricultural credit socie- 

 ties. The neighbouring island of Grenada is mountain- 

 ous, smaller than the Isle of Wight and (if the Irish will 

 forgive me) greener than Erin'sIsle.The methods of cacao 

 cultivation in vogue there might seem natural to the Bri- 

 tish farmer, but they are considered remarkable by cacao 

 planters, for in Grenada the soil on which the trees grow is 

 forked or tilled. Possibly from this follows the equally 

 remarkable corollary that the cacao trees flourish without 

 a single shade tree. The preparation of the bean receives 



