Archive image from page 261 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 22G CACAO adapted to drinking, are imported from Ceylon and Ek-uador. The highest-priced cacao on the market is that grown in a small region in the interior of Ecuador. In the trade this is known as 'arriba.' The following table, taken from the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of July, 1005, ;::ves the cacao production of the world in 1897: Cacao Production of the World, 1897.
Archive image from page 261 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 22G CACAO adapted to drinking, are imported from Ceylon and Ek-uador. The highest-priced cacao on the market is that grown in a small region in the interior of Ecuador. In the trade this is known as 'arriba.' The following table, taken from the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of July, 1005, ;::ves the cacao production of the world in 1897: Cacao Production of the World, 1897. Countries «--/.ity Ecuador 22,000 Trinidad 10,000 Other British West Indies 9,000 Portuguese Africa 7,700 Brazil 7,500 Venezuela 6,000 Dutch Guiana 4,500 Haiti 4,000 Colombia 3,000 Ceylon 1,650 Java 1,000 Guadeloupe and Martinique .... 800 Santo Domingo 150 Niger Coast 55 French Guiana 30 Congo 5 Total 77,390 Although there are regions in Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines well adapted to the growing of cacao, these islands produce only an infinitesimal part of the seventy million pounds annually con- sumed in this country. With a knowledge of the necessary conditions of growth and an apprecia- tion of the value of a uniform product, the grow- ing of cacao in our tropical islands should be a pleasant and remunerative occupation. Literature. For fuller information the following references are given: Cacao, J. H. Hart (1900), second edi- Flg. 321. Cacti after having been visited by stock. A spiny form; spineless plants would have received still worse usage. CACTI tion; Uebersicht der bis jetzt bekannten Arten von Theobroma, G. Bernoulli (1871); Cacao Cul- ture in the Philippines, \V. S. Lyon (1902), Philip- pine Bureau of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 2; Expedition nach Central- und Siidamerika, Paul Preuss (1901); Les Plantes Tropicales de Grande Culture, E. de Wildeman (1902); Cacao: All About It, 'Historicus' (1896); A Treatise on Cacao, F. Emmanuel Olivieri (190
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