Chapter III: Section I: Dried Leaves, Seeds, and Other Substances Used in

THE PREPARATION OF POPULAR DIETETIC BEVERAGES

_Cacao_ or _Cocoa_.

Varieties and description of the tree.

Mode of cultivation in the Colombian Republics.

Enemies of the tree.

Expenses of a plantation in Jamaica.

Cultivation in Trinidad and St. Lucia.

Statistics and consumption.

_Coffee_.

Home consumption and revenue of coffee.

Chicory largely substituted for; history of the fiscal
changes.

Continental demand.

Present produce and consumption in various countries.

Cultivation in Mocha.

Cultivation in India; in Ceylon.

Exports from that island.

Manures suitable for the tree.

Peeling, pulping, and winnowing.

Improved machinery.

New use for coffee leaves.

Culture in Java.

Production of America and the West Indies; Venezuela.

Statistics of the Brazils.

Shipments of various countries to the United States.

Comparative consumption by different nations.

Cultivation in Jamaica; Trinidad; British Guiana; Cuba;
decline of production in this island.

Statistics of exports.

Preparation of coffee leaves for infusion according to
Dr. Gardner's patent.

Dr. Hooker's opinion thereon.

_Tea_.

Immense consumption of.

Liebig's analysis of.

Varieties of the plant.

Imports of tea for a series of years.

Alterations in the duties.

Statistics of import and consumption, revenue and
prices.

Value and extent of the tea exported from China; first
cost at the ports; enormous prices paid for superior
teas.

Total outlay for tea.

Consumption of tea in China.

Export to various countries.

Total production.

Consumption per head in England; not properly within
the reach of the poorer classes.

China could furnish any quantity.

Mr. Travers on the tea duties.

Brick tea of Thibet.

Tea annually imported into the United States;
proportion of green to black.

Range of the plant.

Countries in which its culture has been attempted.

Its progress in America.

The Assam Company and its plantations.

Extension of tea culture by the East India Co.

Mr. Fortune's travels in the tea districts of China.

Instructions and details as to soil, management and
manufacture, by Dr. Jameson and Mr. Fortune.

Dr. Campbell's notes.

Mr. A. Macfarlane's Report.

The East India tea plantations in the North-West
Provinces.

Experimental cultivation of the tea plant in Brazil; M.
Geullemin's report thereon.

Paraguay Tea: Mr. Robertson's description of the
collection and manufacture.

_Sugar_.

Plants from which it is usually obtained.

The sugar cane; its range of cultivation.

Production in our colonies.

Consumption in the last ten years.

Improvements in sugar machinery and manufacture.

Quantity of cane sugar annually produced and sent into
the markets.

Local consumption in India.

Present European supply; demand according to the
consumption in England.

Estimated annual production throughout the world.

Consumption in the principal European countries.

Average annual consumption in the United Kingdom.

Comparative amount of beet-root and cane sugar produced
in the last four years. _Gazette_ prices of sugar
in the last ten years.

Production of sugar in the United States.

Production in Cuba.

Production in the British West Indies.

Production in Mauritius.

Statistics of imports from the Mauritius.

Production in the British East Indies.

Production in Java.

Production in the Philippines.

Chemical distinction between cane and grape sugar.
Varieties of the sugar cane cultivated.

Possibility of raising the cane from seed.

Analysis of the cane, and of a sugar soil.

Chemical examination of cane juice.

Vacuum pans.

Boiling and tempering.

Composition of cane juice.

Ramos's prepared plantain juice.

Professor Fownes on the manufacture of sugar.
Expression of cane juice.

Construction of the sugar mill.

Quantity of juice obtained by each kind of mill.

Position of rollers.

Mode of culture and varieties in the East Indies.

Soils considered best adapted for its luxuriant growth.

Manures.

Sets and planting.

Aftergrowth.

Harvesting.

Injuries, from seasons, storms, insects, &c.

Mode of cultivation in the Brazils; in Natal; expenses.

Comparison between the cost of production in Mauritius
and Natal.

Comparative cost in free and slave countries.

Beet-root sugar: variety cultivated; mode of expression
and manufacture; yield of sugar; estimated profit;
extensive production in France; production in the
German States.

Statistics of the Prussian Provinces of Saxony; Russia,
Belgium and Austria.

A Visitor's account of the French manufactories.

Mr. Colman's opinion.

Proportion of sugar in the beet.

Maple Sugar: description of the tree; its production
limited to America; extent of the manufacture in Canada
and the United States; processes employed; statistics
of production.

Maize Sugar.