Mr. George S. Hudson 201 



Rotary Cacao Dryer is a machine that has 

 lately been put on the market and promises 

 good results. It is extremely difficult for 

 the planter to become conversant with the 

 advantages and defects of new machinery of 

 this kind, unless individual planters take the 

 risk of ordering some of these promising, 

 but untried inventions. As an instance, the 

 Gordon machines have been on sale for twenty 

 years, but it is only within the past five years 

 that they have become appreciated in the West 

 Indies. The work of testing new inventions 

 of this kind should be taken up by the 

 agricultural bodies for the guidance of the 

 agricultural community, as it is hardly fair to 

 individual inventors, makers or planters, to 

 leave them -to bear the cost of experimental 

 work whereby all benefit, if only by ascertain- 

 ing that the machine cannot be used with 

 advantage. 



VACUUM CACAO DRYERS. 



I am strongly of opinion that the ease, 

 economy and certainty of drying cacao in 

 vacuo will eventually cause it to supersede 

 all other methods on estates producing 100 

 bags or more annually. In West Indian 

 central sugar factories no other method of 

 boiling sugar but in vacuum pans has been 

 entertained . for the past forty years ; and 

 although many of these factories cannot afford 

 highly paid engineers, yet the difficulty of 



