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this is compensated for by the fact that the percentage of milk in the nut, 
free from husk, and of water in the fresh meat is considerably lower in 
the former than in the latter. 
Therefore it appears to be very evident 
that the superiority of trees growing near the sea is solely due to the 
quantity and not to the quality of nuts they produce. 
Analyses of large numbers of nuts.—As a check on these last results, 
secured on a small scale, it was decided to determine the actual weight 
of the various products of the coconut under the conditions ordinarily 
obtaining in the manufacture of commercial copra, and, with this end 
in view, 1,000 nuts were procured from trees growing near the seashore 
and the same number from those standing in the interior. 
After lying 
for one month the nuts were put through the regular process for making 
copra which has previously been described. 
The weight in pounds of the 
whole nuts, husks, meat and shells, dried shells, and copra was determined 
directly on an ordinary Fairbanks seale, the meat and milk being obtained 
by difference. 
Five hundred nuts from each lot were sun dried and 500 
grill dried and the resulting weight of copra multiplied by two to give 
the vield of 1,000 nuts by each method. 
For the deter 
mination of moist- 
ure and oil in this copra, twenty samples were taken from each lot, cut 
into small pieces, and quartered down to about 100 grams. 
The moisture 
vas determined at once, after which the copra was sealed and sent to 
tae to secure the determination of the oil content. 
and oil were determined in triplicate. 
SERIES A: 
Both moisture 
Seashore nuts Inland nuts, 
Portion determined. cy tree or fhe 2 a 
Ww rae ™M) Per cent. Mak aga Per cent. 
Weight of 1,000 - 22-2 .- 2 ee 2, 363 100.0 2, 286 | 100.0 
| 
RLUBKA 22 = (5 cee SoS a eee A 897 38.0 703 | 30.8 | 
Nuts minus husks sce. eee a 1, 466 62.0 | 1, 582 69,2 | 
BLeeAMG Shel 2c. 8 Se ee Dee ee eee ta Un! RES ee a 
| 8 ee ee ee 537 | 22.7 603 26.4 
pole CT YE, 12409 Raat oc ee 282 | 11.9 291 12.7 
BOE Me tas oan SC LS ae 2 ge eres Se 647 | 27,4 688 30.1 
Seashore nuts. Inland nuts. 
Portion determined Sun dried. Grill dried. Sun dried. Grill dried. | 
* o< oe cape 
Weight Per | Weight) Per | Weight | Per Weight Per 
in kilos. | cent. | in kilos. | cent. | in kilos. cent. | in kilos.| cent. 
Copra “ase 302.1 12.8 330. 2 14.0 322.9 14.1 333.0] 14.6 
Oil s 182, 2 ee 198.9 8.4 191.1 8.4 189.8 8.3 
Moisture in copra -_..__|__________ (| ee Ae aR as os eB. gee 10.1 
ULE RNP, Sal ean ee ea ta ee Li Ap 3 ee ea 59. 2 | se eae 57.0 
