484 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 



Fourteen beasts fed on linseed cake averaged at eighteen months 

 old 13 '5 lb. live weight the week, or only | lb. less than the heaviest 

 at the show, on less food, especially using palm-nut meal. 



According to others, meal is not recommended owing to its going 

 rancid and its indigestibility. 



19. Manurial Value of Kernel Cake. — The manurial value 

 of palm-kernel cake is £1 4s. for the ration as given per ton. 



20. West African Shipping in Relation to Farm Produce, — 

 Before the advent of the German line, the West Coast was at the 

 mercy of the Shipping Combine, as it is now, freights being arranged 

 accordingly. 



Since the Government has fixed maximum freight rates, shippers 

 now know the largest amount they will have to pay, but even so 

 freights are extremely high, and with no outside competition are 

 unlikely to be brought down very much. 



21. Bibliography of the Oil Palm. — Monsieur Chevalier's 

 Les Vegetaux Utiles de VAfrique tropicale frangaise, Fasc. VII (P partie), 

 " Documents sur le Palmier a Huile," contains a great deal of valuable 

 information on the subject of the Oil Palm. The Oil Palm, by J. H. 

 Farquhar, summarizes the results of a year's investigations as to 

 the growth and yield of the Oil Palm in the Southern Provinces of 

 Nigeria. 



In the monograph Oil Seed and Feeding Cakes, issued by the 

 Imperial Institute, a complete account is given of the new British 

 palm-kernel industry. 



