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immense coconut areas ; they start planting 4,000,000 

 trees in Sumatra ; acquiring other properties ; Americans 

 increasing their interests in coconuts; their immense 

 coconut territories in Philippines, Cuba, Florida ; large 

 purchases from Panama, Brazil, Venezuela and West 

 Indies ; high prices paid for coconuts, 164 ; German 

 Colonial Economic Committee object : "to produce raw 

 material for German industries " ; valuable statistics 

 collected ; machinery invented ; chemists developing 

 new products from coconut ; immense increase in German 

 trade, 165, 166 ; British awakening to importance of 

 industry; pioneer companies now taking the lead ... 167 



French coconut enterprise 162 



German coconut enterprise 161. 165, 166, 167 



Glassy star scale 109 



Glycerine ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 17 



" Hamel Smith " rotary hot-air drying machine, cost, etc. 128, 129 



Holes and holing (See also PLANTING PROBLEMS) 72 



Husk as manure ; green husk as a preserve 18 



Jaggery, made from toddy ; jaggery cement ... ... ... 19 



Labour ; prices in various coconut countries ; contract work 55 

 Lalang ; its rapid growth ; effect on crop ; how to eradicate... 70 

 Land for coconut cultivation ; prices in various countries ... 54 



Leaf disease 105,106,107 



Leaves; their various uses ... ... ... ... ... 18 



Lever (Sir W. H.) ; opinion of coconut industry 3, 180 



Locality ; care needed in choosing ; costly blunders, 23 ; 



best for coconut planting ... ... ... ... ... 27 



Malabar ; finest coconuts, 20, 28, 29 ; highest prices for copra 

 and oil ; planters' careful cultivation, 29 ; natural advan- 

 tages ; scarcity of suitable land, 30 ; properties increasing 

 in value 30 



Manager ; coconut plantation ; qualities and accomplish- 

 ments, 55 ; salaries paid ; good v. bad managers, 56 ; 

 an expert opinion on managers, 57 ; managers v. directors ; 

 how to treat managers and staff 58 



