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Table XXXIV. — Exports, products, or acreage nf coconuts of various countries. 



Countries. 



Philippines dollars. 



Fiji Islands 



Samoa Islands tons. 



Marsliall Islands 



Tutiiila tons. 



Soloinon Islands 



Federated Malay States acres. 



Portuguese West Africa 



Portuguese East Africa 



German East Africa 



New South Wales hundredweight. 



Ceylon acres. 



Oil hundredweight. 



Copra do. .. 



Desiccated pounds. 



Nuts nuts. 



British India and its dependencies. acres. 



Mauritius hundredweight. 



South America acres. 



AmouBt. 



3,819,793 

 5,400 



500 



'nisoo' 



145,510 



606, 134 



687,623 



732,015 



18,384,800 



13,615,589 



480,000 



7,430 



1,000,000 



Year. 



1903 

 HK)3 



1907 



1907 

 1907 



1904 

 1904 

 1901 

 1903 



1907 

 1886 

 1903 



1886 

 1907 

 1886 



Kcmarks. 



Value of copra exported. 



Land i.s covered with coconut trees 



which, if counted, would numlwr 



millionst 

 Amount of copra exported valued at 



£77,981. 

 Imported crop. 

 Copra annually exported. 

 Only product yet cultivated. 

 Valued at $12,0(H),0(J0 to ?15,000,000. 

 ^Production of copra incrnivsing. Coir 



fiber has been made for years. 

 Oerman East African As,sociation in 



Muoa has 200,000 trees; Kjeine, in 



Togo, 136,000 trees at end of 1901. 



Valued at £180,787. 



These exports represent a total number 



■ of 565,527,757 nuts. 



Valued at £8,680. 



It is reasonable to assume that the use of such products is Hkely 

 to increase in this country. The present situation in regard to tlie 

 extent of the coconut industry makes it apparent that the progress 

 of any such viddespread disease as the bud-rot should be studied 

 with great care. 



Owing to the great distance of the East from the European coun- 

 tries the produce is carried in the form of copra, oil, or coir, rather 

 than as whole nuts, the most common form in tropical America. 



No data are available to prove the statement, but it may be gathered 

 from various notes on the subject that European countries are away 

 ahead of America in the consumption of coconut products, particu- 

 larly that of coconut oil for cosmetics, cooking compounds, butter, 

 medicinal compounds, etc., and coir for mats and ropes. 



SUMMARY. 



(1) A disease of coconuts has been known for more than 30 years 

 in Cuba. A similar trouble has also caused widespread loss in Jamaica, 

 British Honduras, Trinidad, and British Guiana. 



(2) This disease is called the bud-rot, owing to a rot occurring in 

 the bud of the tree. The early sjonptoms are the yellowing and 

 falUng of the leaves and the dropping of immature nuts. Eventually 

 the middle folded leaves bend over and the entire heart of the crown 

 is involved in a vile-smeUing soft rot. 



(3) The spread of the disease, wdth the consequent heavy loss, may 

 be very rapid. A single tree may be killed in two months to a year 

 or more after infection, and entire groves may be destroyed in two 

 or three years. 



(4) This disease (or a disease with similar symptoms) occurs in 

 many parts of Cuba, both in the eastern and western ends ; in western 



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