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The Supplement to the Tropical Agriculturist 



The exports from the three prominent German 

 cocoa-producing Colonies during each of the 

 three years 1904-6 have been as follows : — 



COCOA EXPORTED FROM GERMAN COLONIES. 



World's Cocoa Consumption. 

 Countries. 



Cameroon* 



Samoa 



Togo 



1904. 1905. 1906. 



Kilos. Kilos. Kilos. 



1,079.000 1,413,553 1,217,121 



19,518 27,500 92.219 



10,635 13,101 28,637 



The cocoa production of Togo is likely to 

 remain only of limited extent, owing to the want 

 of suitable land for cocoa plantations. Came- 

 roons and Samoa are gradually becoming more 

 and more productive ; and it is the opinion of 

 German experts that some day Samoa will be 

 able to raise a crop of 700.000 or 800,000 kilos, 

 of cocoa. 



The crops of the French cocca-producing 

 Colonies have not experienced any considerable 

 increase of late years. The exports from each 

 of these colonies during the years 1905 and 

 1906 have been respectively as follows : — 



Cocoa Exported from French Colonies. 





1905. 



1906. 





Kilos. 



Kilos. 



Guadeloupe 



Martiniqne 



French Congo 



Guiana 



Madagascar 



Reunion 



637,804 

 469,982 

 50,568 

 14.716 



6,255 



b:6 



675,322 

 472,897 

 89,587 

 15,697 

 8,297 

 290 



Total 



1,179,401 



1,262,090 



St. Lucia had a satisfactory crop in 1906, 

 and future prospects are also said to be favour- 

 able in view of the addition of new plantations 

 whilst much land still remains for cultivation. 



The condition of affairs in Dominica is 

 likewise promising. For the world's market 

 Dominican and St. Lucia cocoa are of small 

 importance, the quantity raised being compara- 

 tively small and tho whole crop being generally 

 sent exclusively ta the English market. 



The cocoa production of the Congo Free State 

 is increasing in quantity from year to year : and 

 whilst cultivation is being gradually extended 

 further means of communication are being es- 

 tablished in the shape of roads and railways. 



All other districts which have not been spe- 

 cially enumerated above, are stated to have pro- 

 duced together about one million kilos, of cocoa 

 in 1906, an increase of about 200,000 kilos., as 

 compared with the preceding year. 



The consumption of cocoa in the various coun- 

 ries of the vorld during the year 1906 as com- 

 pared with the two previous years is shown by 

 the following table : — 



United Slates of 



America 

 Germany 

 France 



United Kingdom 



Netherlands 



Switzerland 



Spain 



Belgium 



Austria- H u ngary 



Kussia 



Italy 



Denmark 



Canada 



Sweden 



Australia 



N or way 



Portugal 



Finland 



1904. 

 Kilos. 



33,159,628 

 27,101,400 

 21,799,600 

 20,552,664 

 12,184,400 

 6,839,100 

 5,816,359 

 2,79 -',008 

 2,510 10' ' 

 2,055,700 

 479,600 

 996,000 

 600,000 

 870,914 

 550,0' 

 472,137 

 180. 0d0 

 63,099 



1905. 

 Kilos. 



34,958,420 

 29,633.100 

 21,747,600 

 21,108.000 

 10,737,400 

 5,218,400 

 6,112,945 

 3,018,997 

 2,668 500 

 2,230,400 

 971,600 

 1,125,000 

 654,088 

 900,000 

 600,000 

 493,813 

 138,000 

 60,600 



1906. 

 Kilos. 



37,654,473 

 35,260,500 

 23,403,800 

 20,132,040 

 11,224,000 

 6,466,900 

 5,607,864 

 3,865,819 

 3,312,800 

 2,675,940 

 1,385,000 

 1,190,000 

 1,035.182 

 1,000,000 

 650,000 

 580,043 

 150,000 

 1-6,252 



Total . 139,022,709 142,374,163 155,680,604 



It will be seen from the preceding figures 

 that the world's consumption of cocoa in 1906 

 greatly exceeded that of tho previous year, viz., 

 by about 9| per cent, whilst the increase in 

 1905, compared with 1904, had only been 2^ per 

 cent, and that the considerable increase in 1906 

 was due mainly to the greatly increased con- 

 sumption in Germany. In view of this fact, 

 it appears not improbable that within one or 

 two years Germany will take the first rank 

 amongst the cocoaconsuming countries. 



The increase of the consumption of cocoa in 

 France in 1906 as compared with 1905 amounted 

 to about 1,750,000 kilos. This increase is 

 stated to have be en mainly due to the larger 

 consumption of the Swiss chocolate factories 

 established in France. 



The cocoa consumption in the United King, 

 dom in 1906 will be seen to have decreased as 

 compared with 1905. As a beverage or as food 

 cocoa and chocolate appear to be less popular in 

 the United Kingdom than they used to be. 

 Whilst, however, the consumption of Swiss cho- 

 colate increases in Great Britain the chocolate 

 manufactured in Great Britain is chiefly ex- 

 ported to British Colonies. 



Of the other countries mentioned in the above 

 table, all with the exception of Spain and Den- 

 mark show an increase-in their cocoa consump- 

 tion for 1906, as ■ compared with the previous 

 year, though in the case of the Netherlands, 

 Switzerland and Portugal the figures for 1904 

 were not quite reached. It will be observed that 

 whilst in Australia cocoa consumption seems to 

 increase very slowly, the rate of the annual in- 

 crease in Cana.la has been a more rapid one. 



The stocks of Cocoa remaining on hand in all 

 countries of the world at the end of the year 

 19U4, 1905 and 1906 amounted to 55.348,651 kilos. 

 56,079,212 kilos., and 49,879,326 kilos, respec- 

 tively. 



