Synopsis li, 



prove matters chemists to sell the medium the 

 Government should co-operate 300 extra profit 

 per 1,000 bags to result Is unfermented cacao 

 asked for ? care needed to inoculate successfully 

 " weathered " cacao sweating boxes vacuum 

 dryers to revolutionize drying the small producer 

 picking unripe pods " unripeness" a misnomer 

 remove the placenta and refuse separate the 

 qualities capacity measurements of wet cacao 

 how to calculate same and check loss in weight- 

 four baskets equal one barrel weighing 300 Ib. 

 ratio of uncured to cured cacao full details as to 

 weights and loss in curing Is fermentation profit- 

 able ? fermenting receptacles or sweating-boxes 

 discussed 7 barrels or 2,100 Ib. wet cacao in a box 

 the need to make them strong materials for 

 making boxes discussed what to avoid and what 

 to choose plan of an ideal curing house (illustrated) 

 slate sweating-boxes fermenting cacao, tem- 

 perature, ferments, changing, &c., &c. discussed 

 a week's work detailed beware of 100 F. 

 keep your boxes clean maintain perfect drainage 

 how to secure this arrange your leaf-cover care- 

 fully what happens when you do otherwise most 

 suitable leaves to use how to assist stubborn fer- 

 mentation give "cacao-flies" free access the 

 importance of "changing" immediate result of 

 slackness in this use a wooden spade some 

 negative experiments a table of fermentation tem- 

 peratures again regarding the distribution of 

 inoculating cultures drying by natural and arti- 

 ficial means sun-drying boucans covered-in 

 areas trays, trolleys, and floors areas, say 5 sq. 

 feet per cvvt. of dry cacao might be reduced to 

 3 sq. feet the palette sun-drying discussed in 

 detail artificial dryers Whitfield-Smith's design 

 (illustrated) and Mr. Hudson's improvements (illus- 

 trated) rotary dryers Messrs. John Gordon's 

 make the Hamel Smith dryer the difficulty of in- 

 teresting planters vacuum dryers Messrs. George 

 Scott's described the Passburg vacuum dryer if 

 more expensive still worth the money the Govern- 

 ment stations should test machines for the informa- 

 tion of the planters washing cacao the loss in 

 weight and gain in price washing v. claying or 

 polishing " airing" washed cacao -clayed cacao 



