Cocoa And Chocolate
The Tree, The Bean The Beverage

j.s >£ ::S ■ ■ <1 J j j 50 THE COCOA AND CHOCOLATE INDUSTRY made of rats and squirrels, which are responsible for losses of cacao as a result of their attacks on the pods. According to Van Hall, in San Thomé the loss caused by-rats is estimated to be about one-fifth of the whole crop. Everyone thinks the squirrel a pretty little fellow, but he is a wanton waster of cacao. He has a playful way of gnawing a hole in the pod to get at the sweet pulp, and scattering the beans on the ground. Books on Cacao Cultivation. The account of pests and diseases given above is very fragmentary, but the writer felt it was better to give a few brief notes than to ignore entirely so important a subject. This may be a suitable place to refer to the chief works on cacao cultivation, for the benefit of those readers who wish for a detailed study. The first modern work on the sub-ject was Cacao, How to Grow it, by Sir Daniel Morris of Jamaica (1882). Since then a number of fine works have been written by Olivieri and Hart in Trinidad, by Wright in Ceylon, by W. H. Johnson in Nigeria, and by Van Hall in Java. Cocoa by C. J. J. Van Hall (1914) is, in the writer’s opinion, the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on cacao cultivation.