BOABOB OR MONKEY-BitEAD. 359 



Brought forward, . 40.795 



Magnesia, . . . . . 13.500 



Oxide of iron, ..... 1.530 



Phosphoric acid, .... 39.649 



Sulphuric acid, .... 0.930 



Carbonic acid, ..... 0.362 



Soluble silica, .... 2.528 



Insoluble silicious matter (sand), . . .706 



100.000 



Oil meal, if genuine, is identical in composition with the 

 best decorticated cotton-cake. 



In the common cotton-cake made of the entire seeds, which, 

 in other respects, is very inferior in nutritive matters, there is 

 reason to suspect that an adulteration is practised by adding 

 to it some of the seed-shells obtained in the decortication of 

 the decorticated seeds of the superior variety. It appears 

 that such an adulteration is highly dangerous, arid one ox is 

 even reported to have died in consequence of the abundance 

 of cotton-seed husks contained in the common cotton-cake 

 with which it had been fed. 



Thick cotton-cake hardly differs in composition from the 

 thin, but owing to its hardness it with difficulty yields to the 

 ordinary oilcake-crusher. 



Decorticated cotton-cake and cotton-oil meal, in comparison 

 with other kinds of artificial food, appear to be decidedly cheap 

 feeding materials. 



Sterculiacece, Silk-cotton order. Adansonia digitata, mon- 

 key-bread, the largest, or at least the broadest, tree known, 

 called also sour gourd, is produced in Senegal. It is called also 

 boabob or monkey-bread. The small leaves of the tree are 

 eaten, at least in time of scarcity. The acid pulp of the fruit 

 diffused in water is used for drink. 



Byttneriaceoe, Chocolate order. Tlieobroma cacao, the cacao 

 tree, is a native of Demerara. From the seeds called cacao 



