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The planting is not done sufficiently carefully, the cocoa 

 trees being often planted with a part of the stem in the earth. 



(4) Shade is necessary during the first three or four years. 

 The plantain or banana is well suited for this purpose; also, 

 at the beginning, pigeon pea. 



Permanent shade may not be indispensable, but it is very 

 useful and profitable in a dry-season climate such as that of 

 Mayumbe. 



Forest shade trees should not be kept; it is much better to 

 use artificial shade which can be better regulated. 



Mixed planting of cocoa trees with palm or coconut trees is 

 recommended. 



Diseases and insects are now being studied by Government 

 specialists. In the case of Salberghella good results have been 

 obtained by getting native children to catch the insects by 

 hand. 



NOTES ON SOME EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS IN CACAO 

 CULTIVATION. 



By Professor P. CARMODY, 

 Director of Agriculture, Trinidad. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



This paper gives a preliminary account of some of the 

 experiments in progress under the supervision of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in Trinidad, on various problems con- 

 nected with the cultivation of cacao. The results are sum- 

 marized in a series of tables. Eight of these tables deal with 

 th*e natural yield of dry cacao per tree, one with the weight o f 

 dry cacao produced per pod, and one records analyses of cacao 

 soils taken from adjacent plots in a field under experiment for 

 natural yield. The interest of the paper lies mainly in the 

 details given in these tables, which will be reproduced 1 when the 

 paper is printed. 



A short account is also given of the system of agricultural 

 education in Trinidad and of the means adopted by the 

 Agricultural Department for distributing information on 

 agricultural subjects, and stimulating interest in agriculture 

 among the peasants. 



