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Very little difference can be observed between these two varieties ; the 
average weight is almost exactly the same; the percentage of husk and 
shell is somewhat lower in the yellow nuts, but this advantage to a large 
extent is counterbalanced by their percentage in milk, so that the amount 
of meat in the two remains practically the same. The yellow nuts 
average 272 grams of anhydrous copra against 238 grams in the green 
ones, which is quite decidedly in favor of the former. 
Unfortunately, the copra from Series IX was spoiled in transit to 
Manila. Calculations on the oil contents of this series were therefore 
based on the assumption that this copra would have contained 64 per 
cent oil—that is, the same percentage as that found in Series VIII. 
Figuring the yield of oil on this basis, we have an average of 174 grams 
for the yellow nuts against 154 for the green ones. However, it will be 
noticed that these tables show a difference of over 100 grams in each 
series between the maximum and minimum weight of oil, therefore if 
another series of analyses of nuts from these two trees were to be made 
possibly the slight advantage in favor of the yellow nuts might be 
reversed. At any rate it may be concluded that the color of a nut has 
very little, if any, influence on its composition. 
Nuts from different localities—In order to test the truth of the state- 
ment that coconuts produced by trees growing along the seashore are of 
a quality superior to those taken from farther inland, ten nuts were 
selected at random from a large pile gathered near the sea and analyzed 
as shown in the accompanying Series X, while a like number was secured 
from a similar one containing the product of trees growing some 1,800 
feet inland (Series XT). 
