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Chapter XXXVIII. Ground-nut. Cultivation ; soil ; cause of failure in 

 Madras Presidency; yield; value of oil and of cake pp. 282 and 283. 



Chapter XXXIX. Poppy. Value of seed ; yield; use p. 284. 



Chapter XL. Cocoanut. Acreage ; processes of extraction of oil; 

 coir ; method of cultivation ; outturn ; chemical analysis pp. 284 to 287. 



Chapter XLI. Cotton. Oil, seed and cake ; analysis; value of cotton- 

 oil ; acreage pp. 288 to 290. 



Chapter XLII. Mahua. Bassia Butyracea and Bassia Latifolia ; mode of 

 extraction of fat ; flowers as fodder. pp. 29010292. 



Chapter XLIII. Safflower. Dye; oil; cultivation ; soil; value; varieties; 

 oil-cake ; boiled oil as water-proofing material. pp. 292 to 295. 



Chapter XLIV. Minor oil-seeds. Sunflower, Cashewnut ; Pittaraj or 

 Royna; Nim seed; Kenja ; Sialkanta. PP- 295 to 297. 



Chapter XLV. Drying and Nondrying oils pp. 297 and 298. 



Chapter XLVI. Jute. Varieties ; potherb ; medicinal use ; history of 

 the industry ; acreage ; outturn ; soil ; cultivation ; manuring ; harvesting oper- 

 ations ; different methods of steeping ; cost ; chemistry pp. 29810304. 



Chapter XLVII. Bombay hemp, Superior to jute ; relative merits of 

 Bombay hemp and sunn hemp; soil ; as pot-herb ; seed as fodder ; cultivation. 



pp. 304 10306. 



Chapter XLVIII. Sunn-hemp. True hemp ; cultivation ; soil ; different 

 modes of steeping ; seed as cattle-food. pp. 306 to 308. 



Chapter XLIX. Rhea. History ; native methods of extraction of fibre ; 

 yield ; cultivation ; propagation from seed and cuttings; prospects; Macdonald, 

 Boyle &. Go's., process; Dear's process; Faure's process ; Gomess' process; 

 durability and lustre of fibre ; Villebrunia integrifolia supposed to be better 

 than rhea; Girardinia heterophylla fibre pp. 308 to 316. 



Chapter L. Cotton as fibre crop. Gossypium Arboreum ; G. Barba- 

 dense ; G. Herbaceum ; G. Neglectum ; Kidney cotton ; Nankin cotton ; 

 Bamia cotton ; Export; acreage; mixture; sowing and reaping times ; culti- 

 vation ; cost and outturn ; avenues of improvement ; Silk-cotton; Akanda or 

 ak-fibre. pp. 316 to 322. 



Chapter LI. Aloe-fibres. Yuccas; Sansivieras ; Agaves; general re- 

 marks about soil and cultivation ; Agave lurida; Fourcroya ginantia; Agave 

 sisalana; machinery. pp. 32310329. 



Chapter Lll. Other Fibre crops. Abroma augusta ; Hibiscus abel- 

 moschus and other hibiscuses ; etc. pp. 329 and 330. 



Chapter Llll. Pineapple. Conditions suitable for its propagation ; varie- 

 ties ; Pinery ; manure ; extraction of fibre ; preservation of thin juices of all 

 fruits ; prospects of pineapple and other new fibres. pp. 330 to 332. 



Chapter LIV. Plantains. Banana jelly ; Banana meal ; high nourishing 

 value; varieties ; soil and cultivation ; extraction of fibre ; Manila hemp. 



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