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PART OF A CACAO BEAN WAREHOUSE, SHOWING ENDLESS 



BAND CONVEYOR. 

 (Messrs. Cadbury Bros'. Works, Bournville). 



very pleasing about huge stacks of bags of cacao seen 

 against the luminous white walls of a well-lighted 

 store. The symmetry of their construction, and the 

 continued repetition of the same form, are never better 

 shown than when the men, climbing up the sides of a 

 stack against which they look small, unbuild the mighty 

 heap, the bags falling on to a continuous band which 

 carries them jauntily out of the store. 



(b) Sorting the Beans. 



As all cacao is liable to contain a little free shell, 

 dried pulp (often taken for twigs), threads of sacking 

 and other foreign matter, it is very carefully sieved 



