INDEX 197 



PAGES 



Marquesas; shipments of copra, etc 53 



Mexico; disadvantages for coconut planting 27 



Micronesia ; detailed cost, typical German coconut estate ... 60 



Milk ; usually wasted ; suitable for vinegar-making 19 



Moluccas; excellent coconut country ... 40,163 



New Guinea; a good coconut-growing region 53 



Nursery ; how to select, prepare and plant ; systems adopted 

 in Malaya and West Indies; how they differ; digging 

 trenches and planting nuts, 90 ; question of water ; when 

 required, 90, 91 ; special germinating method in F.M.S. ; 

 duration of germination ; how long plants left in 

 nursery ; general procedure depends upon country, 

 climate, etc., 91 ; ceaseless vigilance required , ... 92 



Nut ; its various uses, 17 ; five principal varieties ... ... 20 



Nut butter industry; popularity increasing daily; quality 

 equal finest dairy butter, 169 ; colossal quantities con- 

 sumed ; sudden development ; origin of butter substi- 

 tutes ; suggested by Napoleon III., 170 ; made from beef 

 suet, too costly ; manufacture abandoned ; original nut 

 butter introduced by Marseilles firm ; colossal increase in 

 their output ; Marseilles principal centre nut butter 

 industry ; nut butter produced by English firm before 

 this, but in less complete form, 171, 172 ; nondescript 

 margarines marketed, 172; Government passed Mar- 

 garine Act, 1887 ; injustice of Act applying to nut butter ; 

 probability of amendment in near future, necessity for 

 placing nut butter in a special, distinct class, 172, 173 ; 

 special qualities nut butter ; immense development 

 during past five years ; exceptional profits, 173 ; Conti- 

 nental v. English consumption ; industry still in its 

 infancy ; increasing manufacture in England ; decline of 

 imports; decline in imports dairy butter from foreign 

 countries and British Colonies ; process of manufacture ; 

 nuts and milk ; cooling and pasteurising, 174 ; melting 

 the flaked coconut ; spotless cleanliness ; no ingredients 

 touched by human hand, 175 ; cooling and blending ; 

 butter making in four hours, 177 ; scientific tests to 

 secure purity and palatability ; keen competition ... 178 



