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COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 



BARREL ROLLING, GOLD COAST. 



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Germans spent great sums in the Cameroons in giving 

 the industry a scientific basis, they adopted the " estate 

 plan," and possibly the fact that they employ contract 

 / labour explains why they have not had the same pheno- 

 menal success that the natives working for themselves 

 have achieved on the Gold Coast. 



Various countries and districts which are respon- 

 sible for about 97 per cent, of the world's cacao crop 

 have now been named and briefly commented upon. 

 Of other producing areas, the islands, Ceylon and 

 Java, are worthy of mention. In both of these (as also 

 in Venezuela, Samoa* and Madagascar) is grown the 



* Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the pioneers in cacao plant- 

 ing in Samoa, as readers of his Vailima Letters will remember. 



