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New seem of treating the Vanilla Pod.—A communication, dated 
22nd May last, has been received at the Foreign Office from Mr 
ee Sewn Her Majesty’s Consul at Réunion, inclosing extracts 
from the In dépendant Créole of Réunion, containing a paper read by 
M. Dolabartz, Manager in Réunion of the Crédit Foncier Colonial, at a 
recent meeting of the Réunion Syndicat Agricole upon a new process 
ofü treating ie vanilla pod :— 
According to M. Dolabartz the operation consists of drying the 
es vessel, 
. According to [d mene received, 2:981 kilogs. of raw vanilla will 
ed v; 
uce about a kilog. of prepared vani 
kn 1 be easil PR ia that vanilla dried in an air-tight vessel 
must lose much less vanilline E vs dried by the ordinary process, 
by which it is exposed in the open air for several weeks. (Board of 
Trade Journal, August 1896.) 
