102 NIGERIA SOUTHERN PROVINCES 



Palm oil in tons 

 Year (280 galls. =1 ton) Palm k*b m 



1910 . . 76,850 172,998 



1911 . . 79,337 176,390 



1912 . . 76,994 184,624 



1913 . . 83,088 174,718 



1914 . . 72,531 162,452 



1915 . . 72,994 153,319 



1916 . . 67,422 161,439 



1917 . . 74,619 185,998 



1918 . . 86,425 205,167 



1919 . . 100,967 216,913 



It is interesting to compare the amount of oil produced 

 in proportion to kernels collected, there being a marked 

 difference in this respect between the output of the 

 Western Province (Lagos) and the Central and Eastern 

 Provinces. A previous series of thirteen years' exports 

 from the former showed an average of 60-9 gallons of oil 

 to the ton of kernels ; while for the latter a twelve-year 

 period at the same time gave 219-6 gallons of oil to the 

 ton of kernels. The mean for the whole was 140-25 gallons 

 at that time, but during the last seven years it has fallen 

 to 125-7 gallons. In 1912 the first shipments of kernel oil 

 and cake were made from factories established under 

 European control at Opobo and Lagos, the amounts ex- 

 ported being 500 tons of oil and 635 tons of cake. In the 

 following year the value of both products turned out by 

 these factories is given as 161,000, and in 1914 as 

 72,000, when, without any assigned reason, both fac- 

 tories were closed down. 



Articles on the African palm-oil industry in the Southern 

 Provinces of Nigeria will be found in Bulletin of the 

 Imperial Institute, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 

 1919. 



An interesting article appears in the Bulletin of the 

 Imperial Institute, vol. xviii., No. 2 (1920), entitled "The 

 Cultivation of the African Oil Palm, with special reference 

 to the East Indies." From this it appears that the 

 tree thrives and yields very satisfactorily, especially in 

 Sumatra ; the oil content of the fruit and kernels being 

 both high. Attention is drawn in this article to the 

 extension of the use of palm oil in Europe as an edible fat, 

 in addition to its present uses. 



Other Oil Seeds. Excluding the shea nut tree, which 



