CACAO AND ITS CULTIVATION 



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CACAO TREE, WITH SUCKERS, TRINIDAD. 



advice given as early as 1730 by the author of The 

 Natural History of Chocolate, when he says : <:< Cut or 

 lop off the suckers." In Trinidad, experiments have 

 been started, and after a five years' test, Professor 

 Carmody says that the indications are that it is a 

 matter of indifference whether " chupons " are allowed to 

 grow or not. 



After hunting, agriculture is man's oldest industry, 

 and improvements come but slowly, for the proving 

 of a theory often requires work on a huge scale carried 



