480 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 



The following is quoted from Sect. 2, Mr. R. E. Dennett's paper 

 on British Trade in Nigeria. Valuable notes have been obtained from 

 this paper with regard to the palm products. 



Palm Kernel Exports to Germany. 



12. Value of Oil and Kernels. — Since the war, the price of oil 

 first went down £5 per ton and kernels £15 per ton up. 



With kernels at £17 to £18 per ton, the oil is worth £36 15s. per ton. 



Glycerine is worth £50 per ton, and pericarp oil contains about 

 8 per cent. 



At the beginning of 1918 the price of palm kernels varied from £25 

 to £26 per ton, the latter figure being the official maximum for it. 



12a. Description of Kernel Oil. — It is white or pale-yellow in 

 colour, with a pleasant nutty taste. By suitable treatment kernel 

 oil can be divided into liquid oil, olein, and solid palm-kernel oil, 

 stearin. It is used for soap and candles, edible fats — such as palmine, 

 margarine — cooking fats, vegetable butters and chocolate fats. 



13. Import Ports in England and U.S.A. for Oil and 

 Kernels. — Hull. — Congo kernels go to Hull by the Cie Congo du 

 Beige line, run by Elder Dempster & Co. In the first six months 

 of 1915, 20,821 tons of kernels were imported into Hull. In most 

 statements on Hull the price of palm kernel cake is omitted, whilst 

 those of linseed, Bombay cotton-seed, and Saga Bean are always 

 quoted. Hull imported between 40,000 and 50,000 tons in 1915 

 (from January to November only, 31,723 tons) ; 200,000 tons were 

 taken by Germany before, and hence are available now. 



Bristol. — Bristol as a port is prepared, according to its seed-crushers, 

 to try kernels, but they asked the Colonial Office for protection from 

 Germany. 



Liverpool. — For the first six months of 1915, 87,366 tons of palm 

 kernels were imported into Liverpool, against 73,000 tons in 1914. 



U.S.A. — In 1915, 4,000 tons of kernels were shipped direct to 

 the States. 



14. The Crushing of Palm Kernels in Africa and England. 

 — The largest seed-crushing and oil -extracting centre in Great Britain 

 is at Hull. 



Most of the crushing used to be done in Harburg, near Hamburg, 

 Germany, and only a little at Liverpool — some 70,000 tons out of 

 300,000 tons. Since the war began Hull and London (Erith) have 



