10 COCOA CHAP. I 



In addition, the greater facilities for export, the 

 vastly improved methods of preparation with powerful 

 and scientifically -arranged machinery, and the lower 

 duties have all helped to make cocoa more popular 

 every year. The following figures show the increase in 

 the consumption of cocoa in England : l 



Lbs. 



1822 . . . 523,000 



1830 . . . 976,000 



1840 . . . 2,042,000 



1850 . . . 3,081,000 



1860 . . . 3,231,000 



Lbs. 



1870 . 



1880 . . . 10,566,000 



1890 . . . 20,224,000 



1909 . . 88,133,000 



The next table (p. 11) shows the progress which has 

 been made in the production of cocoa by the principal 

 countries concerned, during the last eighty years. The 

 figures indicate tons of 2200 Ibs. ( = 1000 kilograms). 

 It must be remembered that most of the figures are 

 only approximate. No accurate statistics existed of 

 the earlier dates given, and in addition different sources 

 often yield different figures. 



In this list the various countries are arranged accord- 

 ing to the amount of cocoa they export. It is true that 

 in 1909 Brazil exported' more than Ecuador; but this 

 was exceptional, and Ecuador has still to be regarded 

 as being the most important cocoa -growing country ; 

 Gold Coast follows as second, Brazil as third, San 

 Thome as fourth, etc. The black vertical lines indicate 

 that no export of any importance took place. The 

 countries with these lines are therefore of recent im- 

 portance from a commercial point of view. Two of 

 them, however, Surinam (Dutch Guiana) and Martinique 

 with Guadeloupe, grew cocoa centuries ago, and were at 

 one time of some importance on the cocoa market, but 

 became backward and eventually disappeared from the 

 market, Martinique with Guadeloupe in the end of 

 the eighteenth century, Surinam in the beginning of 

 the nineteenth century. The very rapid growth of the 



1 Cocoa: All about it, by "Historicus" (London, 1896). 



