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c.i.f. Cochin spot, 46 ; March -May, ^"41 55. ; 

 April- May, ^41 c.i.f. 



Soya Oil. London: Barrels spot, ^"27 55. 

 (prompt sold at ^27) ; Hull, spot crushed, 

 ^24 IQS. ; May-August, ^24 155. ; Oriental 

 (in cases) January-February, ^24 155. c.i.f. ; 

 February-March, ^24 155. c.i.f. ; March-April, 

 ^24 I2s. 6d. c.i.f. ; April-May, ^24 IDS. c.i.f. 



It is quite true that the laurels were not 

 won in a day nor yet in a few years, and no 

 one denies but that the result was the outcome 

 of steady effort and endeavour. Whether the 

 planters at other centres are handicapped 

 because their nuts are inferior to those of India 

 and Ceylon is by no means proven ; but even 

 if this is so, when once the same care and 

 solicitude have been expended by the backward 

 ones, both on the trees as well as on the 

 copra, as is done by their rivals, then it will 

 be time enough to talk of handicaps. 



For some reason or other, Ceylon especially 

 has been a favoured child of Fortune, and 

 capital and enterprise have preferably gone 

 there, to the detriment at times of other regions, 

 which are, in themselves, equally, if not better, 

 favoured by Nature. The reason may lie in 

 the charm of the land, but the enterprise and 

 thoroughness of its European planters certainly 

 have a great deal to do with this, as was the 

 case when the same men started to plant up 

 Malaya with rubber. The true Ceylon planter 

 had only to whistle and the money came like 



