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COCOA 



CHAP. 



1821 



1831 

 1841 

 1851 

 1861 

 1871 

 1886 

 1895 

 1901 

 1902 



Kilog. 



13,821,700 

 21,017,800 

 22,017,800 

 12,983,500 

 18,611,400 

 21,737,100 

 23,390,100 

 26,231,000 

 21,220,000 

 18,900,000 



No accurate account has been kept of the area planted, 

 but it has been a constantly increasing one for many 

 years. According to official returns it amounted in 



1890 to about 190,000 acres, increasing gradually till 



1905-6 to 207,900 acres ; 



1906-7 214,973 



1907-8 226,880 



1908-9 245,706 



1909-10 245,706 



1910-11 290,200 



1911-12 322,508 



1912-13 325,503 



An export duty amounting to about 9d. per 100 

 kilograms is raised for agricultural services. 



Grenada l 



The little island of Grenada, not larger than 430 

 square kilometres (168 square miles), may be considered 

 one of the important cocoa-growing countries. Its 

 export is steadily increasing, and reached in 1912 

 5,948,100 kilograms. 



But it is not principally the quantity exported that 

 deserves our interest, it is the curious way of successfully 

 growing cocoa without shade trees (Fig. 114). 



This method of cultivation is remarkable because 

 it is not followed in any of the other Antilles. In 

 Trinidad the general belief, which is supported by Mr. 

 Hart, is that growing cocoa without shade is impossible 

 though it must be said that some planters no longer 



1 Preuss, Expedition, pp. 35-38 and pp. 185-187 ; West Indian Bulletin, i. 

 p. 415 ; Bulletin No. 7 of the Inspectie van den Landbouw in West -Indie 

 (Surinam, 1906). 



