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THE DEMAND FOR COCO-NUT 

 PRODUCTS. 



HAVING caught your goose, otherwise having 

 produced your coco-nuts, it may be just as well 

 to think a little about the various uses the 

 products can be put to, so that the up-to-date 

 planter, instead of wasting any chance side- 

 line, can develop them and utilize every atom 

 of by-product on his estate. It is an old story 

 to tell of how everything attached to the coco- 

 nut palm is of use, wood, fibre, leaves, husk, 

 shell, kernels, oil, poonac, &c. Nothing need be 

 wasted, each portion is in demand and wanted 

 somewhere, and it only remains for the planter 

 to ascertain where that somewhere is. We will 

 do our best to try and help him do so. 



As in the stockyards at Chicago the canners 

 and packers have brought the question of the 

 utilization of "waste" to such a fine art, that 

 we are told their enormous fortunes come from 

 this item alone, and not from the main lines 

 of their business, so will it be found on large 

 coco-nut estates, that whilst the profits need 

 not only come from " waste lines " and by- 

 products, the organized exploitation of them 

 will help to considerably swell the dividends. 

 After being spoiled by the huge rubber 



