360 COCOA 



CHAP. 



From the little plantation of Good Hope it is known 

 that very high yields were obtained. But this must 

 be an exception. It is mentioned that Good Hope 

 obtained an average of 650 kilograms to an acre. 



A disadvantage of the system is, that the cocoa 

 trees do not last so long as when planted under shade 

 trees. 



The system of growing cocoa without shade dates 

 only from the last fifteen to twenty years. Formerly 

 cocoa was grown under the same shade trees as in 

 Trinidad, and in exactly the same way. About twenty 

 years ago some planters observed that cocoa did well 

 without shade, and from that time the system has been 

 gradually more generally adopted. 



The intensive way of tilling and manuring, together 

 with the necessity of keeping stock and not less than 

 one-fifth of the whole area devoted to pasture-lands 

 and fodder crops, is more suitable for small cultivations 

 than for large ones ; nearly all the cocoa plantations in 

 Grenada are small. Only a few are larger than 20 to 

 50 acres, and the majority are even smaller. 



The exports of Grenada during the last eighteen 

 years were as follows : l 



Kilog. 



1895 . . . 3,514,900 



1896 . . . 4,581,800 



1897 . . . 3,345,100 



1898 . . . 4,544,300 



1899 , . . 4,037,200 



1900 '. . . 4,793,900 



1901 . . -. 4,767,900 



1902 . . . 5,191,900 



1903 . . .' 4,827,600 



Kilog. 



1904 . . 6,009,800 



1905 . . . 5,796,600 



1906 . . . 4,931,500 



1907 . . . 4,612,100 



1908 . . . 5,108,200 



1909 . . 5,441,400 



1910 . . . 5,846,400 



1911 . . . 5,948,000 



1912 . . . 5,500,000 



Grenada cocoa does not obtain as good a price as 

 the Trinidad article. The bean is smaller, but the 

 flavour is good. 



The following figures of the prices of Grenada cocoa 



1 The figures of the years 1895-1902 are quoted from West Indian Bulletin. 

 The figures of the following years are quoted from the Gordian. 



