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are exported to New York in the husk or in the 

 shell. 



Only those nuts that will pass through a ring 

 3| inches in diameter are used for copra. It is 

 more than probable that the shortage of animal 

 fats will compel the Americans to import more 

 coconuts from Brazil, Venezuela, and other pro- 

 ducing countries than they have hitherto done. 



From this brief survey of foreign activity it will 

 be seen that the demand for the coconut and its 

 products and also for coconut-growing areas is now 

 practically world-wide. 



Always practical and methodical, the pains- 

 taking Germans have organised a Colonial Economic 

 Committee, which has set itself to solve the problem 

 of ;c How to enable the German colonies to 

 become producers of the larger proportion of the 

 raw material that is required for home industries." 

 And, in furtherance of this purpose, they have 

 collected and collated a vast mass of facts and 

 figures which have incidentally enabled them to 

 solve many difficulties in connection with the 

 coconut oil and allied industries, especially by the 

 provision of the most effective system of crushing 

 and expressing oil products. We believe that it is 

 generally recognised that the Haake machine for 

 shelling the nuts is one of the best now in use. 

 Moreover, German chemists have been active 

 in the development of new products from the 



