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FOREWORD BY SIR GEORGE WATT v. 



PREFACE BY THE EDITOR vii. 



Details of the essays included and their source the 

 subscribers to the Tropical Life Prize Fund which 

 caused the book to be written the report of Mr. 

 Wm. Fawcett (formerly Director of Plantations, 

 Jamaica, B.W.I.), and Dr. Dekker on the Prize 

 Essay Why notes on the fermentation of Coffee, 

 Tobacco, &c., were included the opinions of the 

 various essayists discussed the question of by- 

 products and their use as liquid fuel The New 

 York Oil and Paint Reporter on the need of 

 increased supplies The Indian Trade Journal 

 on the same matter The Manchester Guardian 

 discusses the need of increased supplies of alcohol 

 and its calorific value can petrol engines be run 

 on alcohol ? it is agreed that they can be table 

 showing the world's production of cacao what 

 that would yield in vinegar or alcohol M. Leplae's 

 blocks The Pharmaceutical Journal (London) on 

 Perrot's notes regarding cacao fermentation Dr. 

 Fickendey and Mr. Hudson on treating the beans 

 with alkalis the need of Government help on a 

 more extended basis especially to test machinery 

 for the benefit of all the need to insure the output 

 of large supplies of raw material and food supplies 

 how to encourage the flow of young men and 

 capital to produce these what the Indian Planters' 

 Gazette says on the subject regarding tea-planting 

 the present short-sighted public and its policy 

 Dr. Schulte's plea and suggestions train doctors 

 for plants as we now do for people the public and 

 cheap tea the Exchequer and the tea tax both 

 neglect the producer train men to use labour- 

 saving machines as you do munitions of war. 



CHAPTER I. DR. AXEL PREYER 



Is it necessary to ferment cacao? the advantages of 

 washing How fermentation was effected in 1775 



