Index 297 



Beetles (Lasioderma serricorne) in exported cigars, 293 



,, in tobacco, 286 



,, ,, how to control them, 288, 289 



,, ,, the cost of their damage, 287 



Behar and Orissa (India), tobacco drying and fermenting in, 290 

 Bernard, Dr. C. L., of Java, on fermentation, 47 

 Bimbia Plantation, Cameroons, 7 

 Biological process the cause of fermentation, 138, 139 

 Bitter flavour being removed is of most importance, 273 



,, ,, getting rid of the, 247 



in cacao, I, 67, 68, 70, 85, 91, 105, 237, 238, 255, 256, 

 257, 258, 261, 268, 273 



,, principle in cacao, 237 



,, taste and its reduction the prime object, 268 

 Bitterness and brown colouration, 258, 260 

 Blackman fans, 195 



Boa Entrada (San Thome) and fermentation, 100 

 ,, Estate, S. Thome, 93 



,, how it cures its coffee, 129 



,, experiments, criticisms on the, 101 



Boiled or stewed beans, experiments with, 261, 262 

 Boiling prevents fermentation, 44 

 " Boucans," 189, 190 



Boxes for sweating cacao (see Fermenting boxes) 

 Brazil and washing cacao, 208 



" Breaking bulk," the same as " changing cacao," 181 

 " Budding " of yeasts, the, 222 

 Bulking cacao for shipment, 125 



Bulletin of the Imperial Institute discusses fermentation methods, 258 

 Butter in cacao and its percentage, 230 

 Butyric acid through over-acidification, 84 

 By-products, vinegar, &c. , 216, et seq. 



CACAO alcohol (see Alcohol) 

 and its chemistry, 230 

 ,, ,, refusal to ferment, 243, 244 

 ,, tea fermentation, 99 

 ,, ,, oxidation compared, 81 

 butter adulterated with coco-nut oil, &c., how to detect same, 



283, 284 

 (see Fat) 



(Calabacillo), analysis of, 48 

 changes which take place in, 238 

 crop, the world's, xxxiii 

 curing, oxidation the chief object, 132 



total cost of, 187 

 -drying floors, 189 

 fermentation, 177 



,, compared with tobacco, &c., 130 



