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sands of tons of vegetable butter under the names of nuco- 
line, palmine, vegetaline, et 1d genus omne, that are now being 
turned out, and yet withal the supply being in no way equal 
to meet the demand, the cultivation of the coco-nut will be 
remunerative for many a year, as is evidenced by the pres- 
ent anxiety of large dealers to purchase forward crops. It 
should be also remembered that the use of these coco-nut 
butters is very little known; when it is generally advertised 
the demand will go up by leaps and bounds. For cooking 
purposes in particular, most persons would use a vegetable 
oil, in preference to an animal oil. We all agreed that the 
coco-nut was the plant beyond all others that for years had 
been allowed to grow only by the grace of God and its own 
sweet will, man having done little or nothing to aidit. L. E. 
B. waxed quite enthusiastic over improvements and the 
result of his experiments. When he first took over the 
plantation, poor and neglected, 60% of the crop consisted of 
culls (undersized nuts). This he had now reduced to 40%, 
and he would not rest until he had got that 40% to10%. He 
did not believe that, taken all round, in Trinidad the palm 
averaged 60 nuts per annum, when with intelligent cultiva- 
tion, it should yield 120. He believed in green dressing, 
leguminous manures and spraying, none of which had been 
attempted, and he was an ardent advocate for the importa- 
tion of plants of well-known commercial value, particularly 
from South and Central American countries, even though the 
cost was high. As tothe sinful waste, annually, in the shape 
of millions of husks lying rotting around, he was thankful 
to say he would shortly be able to put a stop to that, as his 
enterprising proprietor was going to give him a steel digester 
and high pressure pump, by the aid of which he hoped to 
reduce the hitherto neglected husks to cellulose, which 
would be baled in sheets, and sent to the paper manufac- 
turers to turn into a first class strong wrapping paper. 
By this time we had reached the Nariva ferry, and as the 
sun was getting low, retraced the two miles to the bungalow, 
where we found a most original and tastefully cooked dinner 
awaiting us; it was so unique that I here subjoin the menu, 
our host stipulating that as he was neither C’rab nor Creole, 
