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please^ us very much. We hope it will have 

 a good circulation, as any planter hesitating 

 between planting coco- nuts or not on a large 

 or a small scale, would certainly be induced to 

 give them a trial after studying the simple but 

 reliable instructions given by the author. The 

 pamphlet runs into thirty-one pages, including 

 nine pages devoted to giving detailed tables 

 of cost of establishing a 2,500 acre plantation. 

 Its interest is further increased by the inclusion 

 of sixteen full-page photographs, showing the 

 drying of the nuts, &c., some of which we 

 have taken the liberty of reproducing in the 

 section devoted to the preparation of copra. 

 We quite agree with this authority's remarks, 

 reproduced on the second page of this section, 

 not because the value of coco-nuts and coco-nut 

 products to-day stands at a record level, but 

 because we know ten, and even twenty years 

 ago, when coco-nut planting had but few 

 friends to speak up for it, owners of well- 

 managed groves used to draw very fair profits 

 therefrom in comparison to the few cents or 

 dollars expended on the place during the 

 course of twelve months. If coco-nuts even 

 paid in those days small and large producers 

 alike, it is well to think of what they will do 

 with present prices and prospects. If you 

 have good, deep, rich soil, plant cacao, rubber, 

 or such crops ; but if you have odd pieces of 

 land, or areas of poor soils, do not let these 

 run to waste, but plant coco-nut palms on them, 



