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is used as food for cattle and as a fertilizer, having special value in 
both these connections.* It is sometimes also used illicitly as a 
food adulterant. 
The analytic percentage results on page 333 have been reported 
by various agricultural chemists for such products from nuts grown 
in the eastern hemisphere. : 
The following summary of facts connected particularly with food 
value was given several years ago by Woods and Merrill: ¢ 
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) eo | ) Os 
| Si 18 
é i: ee 2 Sey 
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% | = | a e aS | pee mee 
Edible portion SES SE ees es eee | 2,986 
> ae 8) 1 59 --80.6- | (27.97 | RT ore 
As purchased, | 48.8 | 7.2 | 2.9 | 25.9 | 14.3.| «9 | 8929 
Without milk, as purchased, Rig FO. +30 3-357 -| 27-5 | 1.0 | 1,872 
Cocoanut milk, as purchased, -—— | 92.7 | .4 1.5 4.6 | 8 97 
Shredded cocoanut, ——— | 4.3 | 6.5 |.63.7 | 24.5 | 1-4 
Shredded cocoanut, ae 2.8 GO 51.0.1 39.0 | 1.2 
Edible portion, ——]| 58 | 8&9 | 67.0 | 16.5 | 18 
Cocoanut milk, —_| 91.5 x 27 6.8 | 1,2 
Through the kindness of Dr. MacDougal we have been able 
to examine an account of “ The cocoanut and plant vitality ” in the 
Bulletin of the Botanical Department of Trinidad (July, 190% P- 
249). Reference is therein made to the report of Bachofeu in the 
Queensland Agricultural Journal for April, 1900. Bachofeu says: 
‘Though there exist several analyses of parts of the cocoanut, no 
one seems to have undertaken the task of getting™a complete 
analysis made with the view of ascertaining the actual demand 
made by the cocoanut upon the mineral constituents of the soil.” 
The results obtained by Bachofeu for a single nut are so com 
plete, and so general in their interest and application that we quote, 
on page 335, his general summary in its entirety. ¢ 
Bachofeu’s results indicate that sodium chloride and potassium 
phosphate are the chief inorganic matters drawn upon in the de 
velopment of the cocoanut—chemical data in harmony with the fact 
me 
*v. Knieriem : Chemisches Centralblatt, 2: 672. 1898. 
8 lags and Merrill: Bulletin, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, No 545 
1. 1899. 
{ The analyses were made in Ceylon. Native nuts were used. 
