Preface 



XXXlll. 



cheaper fuel certainly go a long- way to help 

 overcome the clamour one hears on all sides 

 for a cheap and reliable fuel, in order to 

 obtain better transport facilities. In face of 

 all this, when the reader comes to page 216 

 in Mr. Hudson's essay, and sees that for every 

 bag of -cacao produced we can look for two 

 gallons of vinegar and a corresponding supply 

 of alcohol, it is pleasant to think of the large 

 supples of alcohol that might be forthcoming 

 from cacao estates, since, according to the 

 Hamburg Gordian, the world's output of raw 

 cacao is as follows : 



THE WORLD'S CACAO CROPS, AS PUBLISHED BY THE 



Gordian, OF HAMBURG, IN ITS 

 FOR MARCH 6, 1913, P. 6040. 



Tons of 1,000 kilos. 1910 



Gold Coast ... ..." 23,112 



Ecuador ... ... ... 36,305 



San Thome ... ... 36,665 



Brazil ... ... ... 29,158 



Trinidad ... ... ... 26,231 



San Domingo ... ... 16,623 



Venezuela ... ... I 725i 



Grenada 5,846 



Lagos 2,978 



Cameroons and } 



German Colonies) 4' 73 



Ceylon ... ... ... 4,069 



Fernando Po ... ... 2,349 



Jamaica ... ... ... I 743 



Dutch Colonies ... ... 2,579 



Surinam 2,043 



Haiti 1,851 



Carried forward 212,876 



ISSUE No. 429, 



1911 



4357 

 38,804 



35,000 

 34,994 



21,220 



19,828 

 17,381 



5,948 



4,471 



4,404 

 3,064 



3,000 

 2,783 

 2,460 

 i,595 

 1,485 



236,794 



