42 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



analyses of the coco-nut tree and its products 

 were made by a Frenchman, Lepine. They 

 were most elaborate, but have not been 

 accepted as accurate. I see that they are 

 omitted from the latest edition of ' All about 

 Coco-nut Planting.' To my knowledge the 

 next analysis was by Cochrane, at that time 

 the City Analyst of the Colombo Municipality. 

 He interested himself much in agricultural 

 subjects, and published a very useful book, 

 'Ceylon Manual of Chemical Analyses.' His 

 analysis of 3,000 coco-nuts, representing the 

 crop of one acre, was as under : 



ib. 

 Nitrogen ... ... ... 50*25 



Phosphoric acid ... ... 21*64 



Potash ... ... ... 101*25 



Salt 6375 



" The next, I believe, was by Bachofen, at 

 the time in the employ of Mr. Baur : 



lb. 



Nitrogen 25*97 



Phosphoric acid ... ... 7-35 



Potash ' ... 56*25 



Salt '... 64-26 



"The next I have is from the Philippine 

 Agricultural Journal : 



lb. 



Nitrogen 56*04 



Potash ... ... ... 57-09 



Phosphoric acid ... ... i5'7 



" It will be noted that, except as regards salt, 

 Bachofen's analysis gives about a half of the 



