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may sometimes sell at double the price of a 

 well-cured Amelonado sample. In comparing 

 the " Fine Estates " marks of St. Thome, Accra, 

 Cameroons, Bahia, Grenada, Jamaica, St. 

 Lucia and Dominica, there is between the 

 best and the worst a difference in quality that 

 most manufacturers do not value at more than 

 2s. 6d. per cwt., and more frequently the 

 difference does not amount to more than is. 

 or is. 6d. per cwt. 1 In some instances the 

 size and quality of the seed may influence this 

 result, but in most cases it is simply a question 

 of the care and intelligence expended on the 

 processes of fermenting-, drying and polishing 

 the beans previous to shipment. 



Taking planters and their cacao as a class, 

 the good cacao with the bad, and the careful 

 man with the laisser-aller man, there seems 

 to be every probability that the adoption of 

 improved principles in curing, notably Dr. 

 Nicholls' inoculation by means of a ferment, 

 will result in each and every planter obtaining 



1 This is not entirely correct, but quite near enough 

 for the present discussion ; at the same time it is in- 

 teresting to note the differences in quotations on June 16 

 of the following typical growths : 



1913 1912 



Trinidads London ... jz/- to j8/- 65}- to 68/- 



Grenadas London ... 6y/- to 73/6 56/- to 62/- 



Accras Liverpool ... 5<3/- to 6$f- $2/- to 58/- 

 Trinidads Havre ... Fes. 85 to 89 78 to 8 1 

 Haytians Havre ... ,, 68 to 82 57 to 71 

 Venezuelan Havre ... ,, 85 to 1 80 73 to 200 



