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collected together at one or two factories, the 

 possibilities for the discovery of further uses 

 are increased. We remember, for instance, 

 a firm on this side which was turning out a 

 really good felt from the "fibre-dust" for use 

 under carpets, but had to give up making it 

 owing to its inability to secure the raw 

 material. Had the patent, however, been 

 worked on a large coco-nut estate, the supply 

 would have been assured, and the cost of the 

 " dust" after the extraction of the fibre would 

 have been as nothing, since no freight and 

 charges would then have to be taken into 

 account, as is bound to be the case if the 

 felt is made up in Europe or America. 

 We mention these items as we think of them, 

 but there are others, and we have no doubt 

 that once plantations of coco-nuts come into 

 existence equivalent to and as well capitalized 

 as the good rubber estates are, the question 

 of by-products will not be lost sight of, but, 

 on the contrary, become the object of special 

 study and attention. 



In the Philippine Journal of Science for June, 

 1911, Mr. H. D. Gibbs includes the following 

 products arising out of the palm : 



The Palm gives (i) nuts, (2) trunk-wood, 

 (3) leaves, (4) flower-spathe. 



No. i. The nuts give (a) meat, (b) water 

 (c) shell, (a) husk. 



(a) The meat gives copra (yielding coco- 

 nut oil, from whence come soap, 



