12 



COCOA. 



In St. Lucia there are about 430 acres under culture with cocoa ; 

 and the following statistics show that the exports are almost sta- 

 tionary: 



Lbs. 



3839 75,952 



1849 104,912 



1859 198,567 



1864 221,759 



1865 289,097 



1866 192.885 



1867 286,170 



Lbs. 



1868 258,799 



1869 271,968 



1870 257.543 



1871 



1872 246,811 



1873 280,473 



1874 255,614 



In Grenada there are at least 4000 acres planted with cocoa. 

 The shipments were, in 



1864 

 1868 



Cwts. 

 9,462 

 14,861 



1869 

 1870 



Cwts. 

 17,718 

 21,602 



The export duty on cocoa in the West India Islands is as follows : 



s. d. 



Trinidad Ollf per cwt. 



Grenada 6 „ 



St. Vincent 8 „ 



Dominica 1 li „ 



In Jamaica some little attention is again being directed to cocoa 

 culture. 1C23 cwts. were shipped in 1872, and 451 cwts. in 1874 ; 

 there being 40 acres under culture with it. 



The culture of cocoa, which had long been neglected in Guadaloupe 

 and its dependencies, is again coming into favour. The plantations 

 are formed from plants imported direct from Caracas. The quantity 

 exported from Guadaloupe in 1872 was 206,000 lbs. 



In 1727, owing to some disease, the whole of the cocoa trees 

 perished in Martinique; the inhabitants, half ruined, after having 

 tried several remedies, resolved at last to plant coffee. Of late years 

 the cultivation of cocoa has however been resumed, and greatly 

 extended in Martinique, and the quality is much esteemed. In 1872, 

 686,000 lbs. were shipped. 



The land under culture and the production of cocoa in the four 

 French colonies in 1870 were as follows : 





Hectares of 



Kilogrammes of 





21 Acres. 



2i lbs. 





628 



262,300 





463 



125,131 





255 



54,556 





21 



3,750 





1,367 



445,737 



The value of the cocoa received in France in 1870 from her 

 colonies is given at 16,000Z. only. 



The cocoa of French Guiana, dried in the sun or by a cur- 

 rent of air, presents unctuous qualities, which render it sought for 



