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mav sometimes sell at double the price of a 
well-cured Amelonado sample. In comparing 
the “Fine Estates” marks of St. Thomé, Accra, 
Cameroons, Bahia, Grenada, Jamaica, St. 
Lucia and Dominica, there is between the 
best and the worst a difference in quality that 
most manufacturers do not value at more than 
2s. 6d. per cwt., and more frequently the 
difference does not amount to more than Is. 
or 1s. 6d. per cwt.' In some instances the 
size and quality of the seed may influence this 
result, but in most cases it is simply a question 
of the care and. intelligence expended on the 
processes of fermenting, drying and polishing 
the beans previous to shipment. 
Taking planters and their cacao as a class, 
the good cacao with the bad, and the careful 
man with the dadsser-aller man, there seems 
to be every probability that the adoption of 
improved principles in curing, notably Dr. 
Nicholls’ inoculation by means of a ferment, 
will result in each and.every planter obtaining 
1 This is not entirely correct, but quite near enough 
for the present discussion; at the same time it is in- 
teresting to note the differences in quotations on June 16 
of the following typical growths :— 
1913 Igi2 
Trinidads—London ... 72/- to 78/- 65/- to 68/- 
Grenadas—London ... 67/- to 73/6 56/- to 62/- 
Accras—Liverpool ... 58/- to 63/- 52/- to 58/- 
Trinidads—-Havre... Fes. 85 to 89 ~=78'to 81 
Haytians—Havre ... ,, 68to82 57 to 71 
Venezuelan—Havre ... ,, 85 to 180 73 to 200 
