Cocoa Beans - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65083 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 32.00 STERCULIACEAE Theobroma cacao | Entry Book Number | 1.1917 | |
| Artefact Name | Cocoa Beans | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Cameroon | TDWG Region | Cameroon | ||
| Parts Held | Cocoa Beans | Geography Description | Cameroon | ||
| Uses | Cocoa BeansUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | The Crown Agents for the Colonies | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Letter 4,1917: xi p.98 - 'I have the honour to inform you that part of a consignment of cocoa sent to us for sale by the British authorities in the Cameroons, West Africa, has been found to be musty and sour. Though the damage may have been, due to storage in a damp place before shipment, it is suggested by our brokers that the curing of the cocoa was more probably at fault. I have to enquire whether you would be in a position to advise us on this point and furnish us with any observations t, hat might be useful to the Superintendent for plantations in the Cameroons if a sample of the cocoa were sent to you for examination. We have a small sample in our possession part of which can be sent to you if you will inform us how much will be required, .' Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, Westminster, SW, 22 Dec 1916 to Director. Sample (M produce 0224) asked for one or two pounds by Mr Hill Dec 23 1916 and sent on the instructions from the Crown Agents direct from Messrs S.Figgis & Co, 45 Fenc, hurch Street EC 27 Dec 1916, taken from consignment of 1700 bags Cameroon cocoa. 'Eady and I have examined the cacao beans and do not think the deterioration is due to their becoming damp during storage. Many of the beans are quite good but others have a, sour taste which Eady tells me is due to faulty curing (almost certainly under-fermentation). The sample is probably a mixed one. He says he does not consider this a bad sample (native prepared beans are almost always mixed) and it is very much better th, an many he has seen. If the best price is wanted the only thing to do now is to pick over the whole lot by hand. The Superintendent of the Cameroons plantations could be obtain advice from the Nigerian Agricultural Dept.' (Signed) 1st Jan 1917 ADC | ||||