The Cu/tiuation of Cocoa. 
By Alexander H. Hensen of Pin. Leonora. 
HE absence of small industries which might be 
successfully prosecuted here, is no doubt in a 
great measure attributable to the want of labour ; 
and to quote the words of an authority : — 
" However small the industry an individual may under- 
" take — unless such is within the compass of an individ- 
" ual,- — when reaping time comes, recourse must be had 
" to some form of secured labour, and it is, because of 
" this important fact, that small industries have fallen 
"to pieces in British Guiana." 
The steady increase in the consumption of chocolate in 
Europe and the United States of North America in late 
years, has, as a consequence, drawn the attention of 
planters in the West-Indies to the cultivation of cocoa. 
Knowing how well it pays in Trinidad and Surinam, I 
think that British Guiana, which takes the lead in, 
and gives the tone to the sugar industry, should also 
have its share of the profits to be derived from cocoa, 
especially as the two forms of cultivation may easily be 
combined. 
A perusal of the charts of the colony shows that 
the up country was first settled by coffee and 
cocoa planters, — all of which lands are favorable for 
cocoa cultivation, — but for some cause or other these 
plantations were abandoned, possibly from want of la- 
