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COPRA AND ITS PREPARATION 361 



Sun v. mechanically dried fire or smoke dried must 

 be debarred the Philippine output and fire-drying 

 number of nuts per ton of copra cultivated v. 

 native planted nuts percentage of moisture in 

 copra Malabar and Ceylon the best the Philip- 

 pines studying copra-drying what they have to 

 say the finest copra and the worst old trading 

 days present need for adequate transport dry 

 your copra to get to market without mould selling 

 nuts v. copra Dean Worcester (P.I.) on copra , 

 preparation milk a dead waste how to dry in 

 trays over a grill old-time copra boats and their 

 ways a hot-air drying house with pipes and hurdle 

 shelves Walker (P.I.) on drying the tapdhan 

 process hot-air chambers in Ceylon comparative 

 times taken by different drying processes con- 

 struct drying houses economically an attap roofed 

 house the rotary dryers discussed Bridge's 

 " Haraka " and " Hamel Smith " rotary dryers 

 soya-oil will not cut out coco-nut oil drying "by 

 the acre " and by fans the apparatus fully 

 explained and the buildings described 48,000 Ib. 

 dried copra a day in a building costing ,3,000 

 erectedrubber as well as copra must be dried 

 quicker, and fans will do it the Blackman fans 

 a building by the Wire Wove Co. the Chula 

 fans and apparatus their tunnel dryer and dry- 

 ing room equipment. 



THE COST OF MAKING COPRA 410 



Queensland says ^18 ton can the cost be divided 

 into thirds? is ^15 ton possible on large estates ? 

 expensive v. low-costing labour how the thirds 

 are made up how costs can be reduced table 

 showing expenditure the details discussed a big 

 Portuguese planter challenges the estimate Mr. 

 L. C. Brown's views and estimate he also gives a 

 table which is discussed in detail Mr. Moors sup- 

 plies costs in Samoa regarding actual yields 

 actual results from two estates the cost per acre 

 of land up to the producing stage. 



