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WE have had much pleasure in reading this well-illustrated little book, which is a notable addition to a useful series. Miss Browne, who has first-hand knowledge of the Gold Coast, takes her readers on a personally conducted tour through the cocoa-growing districts of the Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti, which, as most people know, now form the premier cocoa-growing region of the world. The information conveyed in this interesting fashion is complete, accurate, and well arranged, and is supplemented with admirable glimpses of West African life. Balance is given to the book by an account of cocoa-growing in other countries, followed by a description of the manufacture of cocoa products in two well-known English factories. Miss Browne finds opportunity to warn the West African cocoa industry of the potentialities of South American cocoa-growing countries now deprived of their former pride of place. The warning is well timed and merited, not solely on the grounds mentioned by the author.
Cocoa.
Edith A.
Browne
By. (Peeps at Industries.) Pp. viii + 88. (London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1920.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Cocoa . Nature 109, 269 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109269c0
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