IMPERIAL INSTITUTE SERIES OF HAND- 

 BOOKS TO THE COMMERCIAL RESOURCES 

 OF THE TROPICS 



COCOA: Its Cultivation 

 and Preparation 



By W. H. JOHNSON, F.L.S. 



DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA, AND FORMERLY 



DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE IN THE GOLD COAST AND IN THE TERRITORIES 



OF THE MOZAMBIQUE COMPANY, PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA 



With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 6s. net 



CONTENTS: HISTORICAL BOTANICAL CLIMATIC REQUIRE- 

 MENTS OF COCOA TREES SOIL REQUIREMENTS OF THE COCOA 

 TREE LAYING OUT A COCOA PLANTATION SHADING AND INTER- 

 CROPS FOR COCOA PROPAGATION PLANTING, CULTIVATING, AND 

 PRUNING MANURING RESULTS OF MANURIAL EXPERIMENTS IN 

 VARIOUS COUNTRIES DISEASES VEGETABLE PARASITES AND 

 EPIPHYTES HARVESTING AND TRANSPORTING COCOA BEANS TO 

 FERMENTING HOUSES THE SCIENCE OF COCOA FERMENTATION 

 METHODS OF FERMENTING IN VOGUE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES- 

 WASHING AND DRYING COCOA YIELDS AND EXPENDITURE COM- 

 MERCIAL COCOA, ITS MANUFACTURE AND USES. 



" Those owning established plantations, or who are thinking of 

 taking up cocoa-planting as an industry, will certainly need to add 

 Mr. Johnson's work to their book-shelves, and when they do so they 

 will find the information given to be compact, easy to understand and 

 follow, sound in practice, and reliable in detail. We are glad to see 

 such a book from so experienced an authority." Tropical Life. 



" It may be recommended to the notice of those interested in the 

 cocoa industry, as it contains a mass of information relative to plant- 

 ing and cultivation. Many valuable hints may be gleaned from its 

 pages, which cover the subject in a thoroughly comprehensive and 

 capable manner." Financial Times. 



" Mr. Johnson may be congratulated on compiling a most inter- 

 esting and valuable handbook of one of our chief colonial industries/' 

 Northern Whig. 



" The work, which is illustrated with numerous plates and statistical 

 tables, is most exhaustive in nature, and contains all the information 

 on cocoa and its production that a prospective planter in any part of 

 the world could possibly require." Western Daily Press. 



