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price of meat in Europe cheapen food in Europe 

 and you will lower cost of machinery, &c., in the 

 Tropics latest news on the shortage of army 

 remounts the value of coco-nut poonac for feeding 

 stock the experiments to prove this at Wye 

 Agricultural College. 



FARMING WITH DYNAMITE .... ... 507 



Paper read at the New York (1912) Congress 

 explosives save time and money their use in 

 U.S.A. six reasons for using explosives dyna- 

 mite but still plough how explosives liberate 

 plant-foods in the sub-soil- and so benefit the 

 crops Nobel's (of Glasgow) book on the subject 

 the Tropics enthusiastic over this new aid its . 

 help to a Ceylon planter its advantage when 



planting trees and for removing stumps, &c. 

 cost in South Africa explosives for locusts and 

 other pests another advocate in Ceylon especially 

 for coco-nuts and sub-soiling how it can break' 

 up coral slabs Ceylon experiments full details of 

 costs cheaper even than coolie labour Trinidad 

 (B.W.I.) tried explosives on sugar cane lands and 

 got satisfactory results axe and monkey-jacks 

 plus explosives for clearing out trees and stumps 

 use of waste timber for making wood-pulp or 

 suction gas. 



NOTES ON THE EXTRACTION OF OIL 526 



Coco-nuts, soya-beans and ground-nuts Herbt. S. 

 Walker's (P.I.) analyses first the nuts -then the 

 copra percentage of water withdrawn and left in 

 ^250 tons of water per -1,000,000 nuts average 

 contents of nuts based on eleven analyses 

 expression v. solvent extraction central factories 

 for soya-bean oil in Manchuria the world-produc- 

 tion of oil according to Der Pflanzer yield of oil 

 per palm- Chekku mills deodorizing and purify- 

 ing the oil the firm of Edouard Bataille of Paris 

 their extraction apparatus described how the oil 

 is purified the " Scott" process. 



