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on cocoa may be beneficial, yet to the masses such uncontrolled drug- 
ging may be followed by serious consequences. Pure cocoa is so 
rich in good dietetic properties that to interfere with the normal 
proportions of the food principles is to notably decrease its nutritive 
value.”’ 
A high authority on cocoa has recently said: ‘‘.A pure cocoa un- 
changed by destructive chemicals is the best cocoa. There is no 
more need for introducing alkalies into cocoa than there is into 
cracked wheat or oat- 
meal.’’ 
The simple process 
.by which the natives 
of Central and South 
America prepared a 
nutritious beverage 
from the seeds of the 
cocoa tree has already 
been described. We 
will now refer briefly 
to the modern méthod 
of manufacture as 
carried on in the 
Walter ‘Baker -esaube PRIVATE OFFICE, MILL No. 4 
lishment, in which the latest and most improved machinery and 
appliances are used to improve the quality and cheapen the cost of 
production. 
The selected cocoa beans are first cleaned from the dust and at- 
tached particles which have come from various sources during the 
fermentation of the seeds. The machines for cleaning the beans 
are very ingenious and effective, removing from the seed coat every 
trace of foreign matter. 
The cleaned seeds are next roasted in the most careful manner, 
