Cocoa May Be Grown In
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Micronesia
WASHINGTON reports that the Ameri can trustee islands may be a new source of chocolate and cocoa.
Robert Burton, Santa Cruz, Calif., re porting on 20 months of work at the agricultural demonstration station on Ponape island, in the Eastern Carolines, said experimental plantings of cacao have done remarkably well. The yield was over 600 pounds of dried beans to the acre.
“The good quality of the beans, the apparent freedom of diseases, the whole sale value of over $9O an acre—as against an average return of $4O for copra seemed to indicate that cacao might well be considered for Ponape, Kusaie and perhaps Truk,” he said.