INDEX 193 



PAGES 



Cocos nucifera, description ; period of production ; bearing 



capacity, 13, 14, 15 ; by-products 17,18,19 



Close planting, disadvantages of ; errors made by natives ... 23 



Clearing and preparing land 70 



Cost of planting estates. (See PLANTING ESTIMATES, 49-64.) 



Cyclone belt to be avoided 26 



Coir fibre : early history in Ceylon ; an important industry, 

 117 ; Malabar produces finest coir fibre ; product in other 

 regions ; influence of locality, soil, climate and proximity 

 to sea ; best age to collect nuts ; methods of preparation ; 

 Malabar nuts produce fibre of purest hue and texture ; its 

 imitators; description of coconut fibre, 118 ; systems of 

 preparation vary Malabar, Ceylon and Laccadives ; 

 perfect methods, description of same ; expert fibre 

 workers, 119 ; lack of machinery for stripping fibre ; a 

 successful machine ; importance of soaking fibre ; 

 description of methods, 120 ; yield of nuts for coir fibre, 

 121 ; uses of coir fibre, 121, 122 ; coir cables, 122 ; 

 product coir fibre and yarns, Malabar, Ceylon, etc. ; 

 detailed statistics, qualities, prices, etc 122, 123 



Coir fibre: its uses ; rope, cordage, matting 117 



Copra, striking rise past five years ; comparative prices, 124 ; 

 ideal copra ; Malabar's perfect product, 125 ; processes 

 of drying sun, kiln, hot air, rotary hot air ; time occupied, 

 126, 127 ; system adopted in Dutch East Indies, 126 ; 

 disadvantages of sun and kiln drying, 127 ; necessity for 

 artificial drying ; its advantages ; Hamel Smith rotary 

 hot air drying plant ; its capacity and advantages, 128 ; 

 nuts needed for one ton copra number allowed in various 

 countries 129, 130 



Copra, its sterilisation ; a difficult problem ; reasons for 

 previous failures, 131 ; two greatest difficulties, deodorisa- 

 tion and decolorisation ; advantages of clarity and 

 natural colour in oil; how this promotes economy in 

 treatment ; a new sterilisation process ; the essentials of 

 copra for export ; various methods of existing processes ; 

 sterilisation as the basic principle ; the prevention of 

 rancidification, 133; processes for securing this result 



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