cocoa: all about it. 



veniently carried out. , It is advisable, however, not to use the 

 same spot too often, as the empty pods accumulate and prove an 

 impediment to the cultivation. 



Implements used for severing the Fruit from the Tree, and cutting open the Pod. 



A party, consisting of a man with a cutlass and two or three 

 women with wooden spoons or scalpels, are told off to a number 

 of heaps, and by each one they spread plantain leaves on the 

 ground to receive the seeds. Then, while the man breaks the 

 pods with his cutlass, the women remove the beans with the 

 wooden spoons, clean them of the fibrous tissue by which they are 

 attached, and throw them in a large heap. 



All black, unripe, or damaged beans are placed on one side. 



