135. 



COCOA DUST. 



Refuse from Cocoa Mauufacfcure, sent on from Boston, Mass. 



Essential mineral constituents in 100 parts of Cocoa dust. 



The material consisted of inside and outside parts of the cocoa 

 beau with some foreign matter. It was obtained in the process of 

 cracking and sifting the bean. The examination was made by re- 

 quest to ascertain its fitness for manuring. Although its nitrogen 

 percentage (2.3 per cent.) compares well with many fertilizers in our 

 market, it would be for economical consideration more advisable to 

 try the cocoa dust as a fodder in place of oil bearing seeds. The 

 reputation of the cocoa as a highly nutritive food for man is too well 

 establislied to doubt the efficiency of the above described article as a 

 fodder for some kind of farm stock. 



