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Rican markets and are ready to be eaten after a few min ites' 

 boiling. The seeded variety is called " dug-dug" or " dog-dog" 

 in Guam, while the seeds, rich in oil, are known as " nangka." 



WOOD. 



According to Grosourdy (2 : 406) the trees furnishes a wood yel- 

 lowish gray in color ; rather light and soft, but strong, resistant, 

 and elastic, and with a specific gravity of 0'495. It resists the at- 

 tacks of the white ant and only needs to be kept dry to be fairly 

 durable. The framework of Samoan houses is made of the curved 

 limbs of breadfruit, beautifully rounded, and joined together and 

 wrapped at the edges with coconut sennit. Other species of this 

 genus yield valuable woods, among which may be mentioned the 

 " Anjeli" wood (A. hirsuta) and A. chaplasha of India. The wood of 

 most of the genus is light yellow when cut, but darkens with ex- 

 posure and age to a mahogany color. The wood of the Jak {A. 

 integrifolia) not only takes on a fine mahogany color, but also 

 yields a yellow dye which serves as a mordant for other vegetable 

 dyes. 



CLOTH. 



In the primitive days in the Pacific, before the advent of the 

 trader with his beads and calico, the natives were dependent upon 

 natural products for their scanty wearing material. The cloth 

 prepared from the inner bark of the paper mulberry {Brousso7ietia 

 papyrifera) was by far the most valuable, although the product of 

 the best of the breadfruit was not despised as a cloth producer. 

 Mr. W. E. Safford of the Department of Agriculture says that in 

 Samoa, owing to the abundance of the paper mulberry, the 

 natives do not use the breadfruit in this connection, while in 

 Guam the practice, common in olden times, has of late been 

 discontinued. The paper mulberry does not grow in Guam ; the 

 bark is not extracted by the Fijians. In Captain Cooks' First 

 Voyage (Vol. 2, pp. 21 1-2 1 3, Hawkesworth Ed.) there is an 

 extended account of the preparation of the cloth from the inner 

 bark of the breadfruit, unfortunately too long for quotation at this 

 time. 



MISCELLANEOUS USES. 

 In the Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society for November, 

 1900 (pp. 668, 669), Mr. W. Kirkland suggests the preparing of 

 banana and breadfruit flour for fodder from small and imperfect 

 fruits. The fruits require but a day's drying on the rocks in the 

 sun after being sliced, and are then ready to be ground, sifted, and 

 fed to the stock. According to Mr. Kirkland the flour was eaten 

 with relish by horses and he has often seen stock eating bananas and 

 breadfruits as they lay rotting on the ground. Two bunches of 

 bananas made lO^l quarts of flour according to his account, but no 

 mention is made of the size of the bunches. Outside of the use of 

 this flour as fodder the banana flour makes a good esculent, which 

 can be cooked in various ways, and was preferred by the author 

 to cornmeal, yams, or coconuts. 



