Cacao

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These beans are the size of a thick, sweet almond, and are in this state the cacao beans or the raw cacao of commerce.
When the fruit or pods are ripe — and a picking usually takes place twdce a year, for the tree may have on it buds, flowers, and fruit all at the same time — they are severed from the branches by skilled gatherers, who reach up to them with a long, pruned-shaped CACAO GATHERERS RETURNING FROM WORK.
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knife so arranged that it can cut oS the ripe fruit without injuring am" adjacent green pods. The gathered pods are left in heaps upon the ground for a day or so, when they are cut open; the seeds are then taken out and carried to the place where they are cured or sweated.
The curing process is as delicate as it is for coffee and tea, and upon the results obtained depend to a great extent the quality and rich- ness of the powder sold for consumption. The older way was to spread the beans in the shallow pans exposed to the sun, and in a sense sun-cured beans produce a better article; but later methods require expensive buildings in Avhich to bring about the result.


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