COMMERCE 



495 



AVERAGE PRICES DURING 1909, 1910, AND 1911 ON 

 THE HAMBURG MARKET 



(in marks for 50 kilograms net ; 1 mark= Is.) 



We should not omit to call attention to the fact, 

 that it is principally the ordinary sorts which have 

 increased in quantity. We may follow the Gordian 

 and divide the different sorts of cocoa into two groups- 

 one containing the cocoas of fine and of fair quality, the 

 other containing the ordinary sorts and classify them 

 as follows : 



Fine sorts : Venezuela, Ecuador, Trinidad, Grenada, 

 Ceylon, Java, Jamaica, Surinam, Lesser Antilles. 



Ordinary sorts : Bahia, Kamerun, San Thome, 

 Saman^,, Accra, Haiti. 



The figures of production of these two categories (in 

 kilograms) are 



This shows the much greater increase of the ordinary 

 sorts. In 1895 they amounted to 21 per cent of the 



