xlii. The Fermentation of Cacao 
&c., and even to rubber, although with that 
product a mass of information has been issued 
of late years. But, with rubber also, the out- 
put of such data has been a spasmodic, hap- 
hazard and uncertain, often unexpected one, 
not an organized campaign carried out as part 
of a systematic series of researches at the 
instigation of the Home Government, whose 
revenues through. the increased prosperity of 
its subjects, shareholders, engineers, rubber- 
manufacturers, workpeople, and allied trades 
have benefited enormously, owing to - those 
concerned being able to pay such heavy contri- 
butions at home and abroad into the Imperial 
exchequer. 
“Such trades as those in which the material 
used has to be fermented,” Dr. Schulte tells 
us on p. 115, “require special scientific insti- 
tutes to which the manufacturer can turn at 
any time for advice when unexpected results 
or irregularities occur in their work. Unfor- 
tunately, as regards the treatment of cacao 
such an establishment is, at present, practically 
non-existent. ° . . What should be done 
is to introduce the process (likely to be of use) 
on one plantation in each colony, a scientific 
expert specially trained to the work being 
engaged to assist, and only when these two, 
the scientist and the planter, together have 
thoroughly mastered the process, to then in- 
troduce it generally to the other estates. In 
order that advice might be at hand when 
