70 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



hardly tally, for if 6,000 nuts, which we are told 

 in answer No. i, give i ton of copra, they 

 would also give 153 gallons of oil by answer 

 No. 4, or 25 gallons per 1,000 nuts, not 20 

 to 22 gallons as by answer No. 5. Even at 

 7,000 nuts to the ton of copra, at 153 gallons 

 to the ton we should get practically 22 gallons 

 of oil per 1,000, not 20 to 22 as suggested in 

 answer No. 5. 



This question of what number of nuts go to 

 a picul or ton of copra or a gallon of oil is a 

 vexed one. Differences of opinion are shown 

 by the following table made up from various 

 reliable sources : 



The sign means " yield " : 



i gallon of oil weighs 9 Ib. 4 oz. 



40 full-grown nuts == i gallon of oil. 



1 2^- gallons oil, or 500 nuts = i cwt. oil. 



250 gallons oil, or 10,000 nuts = i ton oil. 



170 to 200 nuts = i cwt. copra. 



3,700 nuts = i ton copra. 1 



3 nuts = i Ib. desiccated coco-nut. 



45 Ib. copra = 3 gallons oil, or 61*8 per cent. 



1 This it is claimed by the large soap manufacturers 

 must be incorrect ; they say at least 5,000 nuts go to a 

 ton of copra, as is shown by its taking 3 nuts = i Ib. 

 desiccated coco-nut. (See also notes on Samoa, p. 135.) 

 The difference in loss of weight between copra and 

 desiccated coco-nut is far too small for it to be neces- 

 sary to use only 3,700 nuts in the one case and 

 2,240 X 3 = 6,720 nuts in the other. Anyone can, 

 however, soon check and see for himself how many 

 nuts go to i Ib. of well dried meat. 



