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coconuts are difficult to obtain in quantities, even at the advanced 

 price of £5 to £5 10s. per 1000, and coconut oil has risen to 

 somewhere in the neighborhood of £45 per ton. If in ten years 

 science has enhanced the value of this product to an extent that 

 seems almost incredible, it is the firm belief of farsighted men 

 that it will do so again — and in a less space of time. Scientific 

 investigation is keener every year, and what it accomplished be- 

 tween 1904 and 1914 it will do again between 1914 and 1924. 



INDUSTRIES OF THE TROPICAL WORLD. 



The man in the street thinks of coconuts as having no better 

 use than being placed upon wooden pegs, at bank holiday time, 

 for the children to knock down. It may surprise him to learn 

 that the coconut show business in the British Isles absorbs only 

 about 414 millions of coconuts, value £32.000 sterling per annum, 

 which is a small fractional part of the turnover of £50,000,000 per 

 aniumi. It may therefore with justification be said that the minds 

 of the public require some enlightenment on the subject of this 

 industry. 



USES OF SUGAR. 



Sugar and molasses are said to be used in the shoe-blacking 

 industry to a considerable extent. Soap-making finds a use for 

 sugar in the place of glycerine. Copying ink is made of one part 

 of sugar added to three parts of ordinary ink. * * '^ The 

 walls built in this island some two centuries ago are said to have 

 been built with some molasses put into the mortar. Even in the 

 tanning industry and in silvering of glass mirrors, they say sugar 

 is used. We would urge scientists to go forward and find some 

 more uses for our staple commodity in this progressive age. — 

 Barbados Agricultural Reporter. 



Experiments are being made in Honolulu with molasses as a 

 binder of broken coral in road construction, oil having been proved 

 unsuitable for mixing with coral, although the right thing for 

 binding other macadamizing material. 



Dr. Norgaard's technical discussions of diseases of live stock 

 — as, for instance, what he says about a horse distemper on Maui 

 in his August report — ought to be preserved by stock raisers and 

 owners for reference and guidance. When, as in the case men- 

 tioned, such a simple thing as the providing of pure water for 

 stock saves the lives of valuable animals, the proverb about the 

 "ounce of prevention" acquires great force. 



Importations of thoroughbred livestock of various kinds, which 

 appear in almost every month's report of the Division of Animal 



