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residual c ike is an important feeding- stuit for stock. The 

 imports of palm kernels into the United Kingdom in 1913 

 amounted to .1,675,453 centals, coming chiefly from Nigeria 



(1132835), the remainder from Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Gam- 

 bia, Liberia, Canieroons, Togoland, Belgian Congo, French 



and Portuguese West Africa. 



1. 1889, " Oil Palm in Labuan," pp. 259-267; 1891, " African 

 Oil Palm," pp. 190-192; 1892, "Lagos Palm Oil," pp. 200-208; 

 1909, " The Varieties of the Oil Palm in West Africa," pp. 33- 

 49; ''The Economic Aspects of the Oil Palm," pp. 161-184; 

 1914, " The Varieties of Oil Palm m West Africa," pp. 285-288; 

 1918, "The West African Oil Palm," pp. 121-124; "The Oil 

 Palm in the Cameroons," pp. 197-198. 



2. Nov. 1914, ''Palm Nut Kernel Cake," pp. 697-701; Jan. 

 1916, ibid., pp. 998-1001; July, 1916, " The Influence of Palm 

 Kernel Cake on the Production of Milk and Butter," pp. 305- 

 320; "Palm Kernels and Palm Kernel Cake," pp. 363-366; 

 Nov. 1916, "Palm Kernel Cake," pp. 734-749; Dec. 1916, 



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Palm Kernel Cake and Meal as Food for Pigs," pp. 850-859. 

 3a. No. 20, 1917, "Coconut Cake and Palm Kernel Cake." 



Cocos nucifera, Linn.-, Cocoa- or Coco-Nut. 



A tree 60 to 100 ft. high, widely distributed in tropical coun- 



tries near the sea. 



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or kernel of the nut and refined oil or solid fat is very largely 

 used in the preparation of margarine and other food-stuffs. 

 The cake (" Poonac M in Ceylon) is an important cattle food. 

 Copra to the amount of 691,443 centals was imported in 1913, 

 hiefly from Australia and New Zealand (the produce of the 

 South Sea Islands), Straits Settlements and Federated Malay 

 States, Philippine Islands and Guam, French Possessions in the 

 Pacific, Dutch East Indies, Mauritius, Portuguese East Africa, 

 Fiji Islands, &c, and nearly double the above quantity of oil, 

 refined and unrefined, came from Germany, Denmark, Ceylon, 



Australia, France, Belgium, Holland, "United States, &c. 



1. 1890, "Cocoa-nut Butter {Cocos nucifera)," pp. 230-238. 



2. June, 1901, "Cocoa-nut Butter," pp. 101-102; Feb. 1915, 

 " Cocoa Nut Cake and Palm Nut Kernel Cake," pp. 1025-1032; 

 May, 1916, " Feeding Coco-nut Cake on Grass," pp. 117-123. 



3a. No. 20, 1917, "Coco-nut Cake and Palm Kernel Cake. 



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The 



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Linn.), a tall palm, native of Tropical Africa, cultivated in 



Burm 



and Ceylon for the extraction of "toddy," from 

 which the spirit "arrack" is distilled; the "Nipa" (Nipa 

 fruticans, TV rmb.), a low-branched palm found in the Sundri- 

 buns of India and in swampy regions of Malaya, Ceylon, 

 Australia, &c. ; is an important source of potable alcohol in the 

 Philippines, and the "Wine Palms" (Raphia xinifera, Beauv. 

 and R. II oaken. Mann.), of West Africa also yield a beverage 

 called " Palm Wine," everywhere consumed Iby the natives. 



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