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gives 6"9 nuts per kilogramine of copra. We 

 may put it at seven. With good nuts the 

 number of nuts per kilo of copra is about six. 



These nuts were, therefore, about 10 per cent, 

 below good average quality. We may deduce 

 from this that the nuts of Quelimane, taking 

 them through, are light in weight ; a result that 

 might have been anticipated from the soil and 

 the appearance of the trees. The calculation 

 now works out as follows : — 



Kilos. 



Output of copra for the year 1909 3,159,368 



Number of nuts made into copra (x 7) ... 22,115,576 



Giving numl>er of trees of bearing age (-^ 15)... 1,474,371 

 Allow an increase of 10 per cent, for 1910 ... 1,621,808 



Young trees not yet coming into bearing 

 number about one million, bringing the total 

 in the Quelimane district to-day up to two and 

 a-half million cocoanut-trees. 



These calculations, it may be remarked, served 

 to check the yield of nuts. If the yield of 

 nuts is forty per tree, as some maintain, then 

 there are but some 600,000 cocoanut-trees in 

 Quelimane, not counting young ones ; if the 

 yield is fifty, then there are half a million 

 trees ; numbers that no one would accept. 



* Estaiistica do Comniercio e Navegacao, anno 1909. 



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