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10 feet or even less, but this system is followed no 

 longer. Care is taken that no water remains standing 

 in the fields, and, when necessary, narrow trenches are 

 made ; but as cocoa is grown on hill-slopes, and not 

 on flat lands as in Surinam, while the rainfall is not 



Photo. Jacobson. 

 FIG. 111. An Amelonado type grown in Trinidad. 



so extraordinarily heavy as, for instance, in some parts 

 of Java and British India the damage done by the 

 rain-water, either by keeping the soil too wet or by 

 washing away the earth, is not so much to be feared 

 in Trinidad. Still, in some plantations, where the land 



