CONTENTS 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. Botany and Nomenclature 1 



II. Some Illustrations op Pods 15 



III. Selection of Land 22 



IV. Nurseries 29 

 V. Planting Cacao 34 



VI. Shading Cacao 44 



VII. Manuring 52 



VIII. Pruning Cacao 65 



IX. Diseases of Cacao 76 



X. The Fauna of the Cacao Field 105 



XI. Road Making and Draining 126 



XII. Picking and Harvesting 130 



XIII. Shelling and Breaking 139 



XIV. Cacao Fermentation 142 

 XV. Drying Apparatus, etc. 161 



XVI. Agricultural Chemistry of Cacao 179 



XVII. Temperature and Climate 217 



XVIII. Yield, Value, and Prices of Cacao 223 

 XIX. The Land Available, and the Value of a 



Cacao Estate 232 



XX. Production of Cacao 237 



XXI, The Food Value and Manufacture of Cacao 247 



XXII. Transport of Cacao Plants and Seeds 263 



XXIII. Miscellaneous Notes 270 



XXIV, How Josi formed his "Cocoa" Estate 289 

 XXV. The Health or the Cacao Estate 296 



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