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candles, butter, lard, ointment, cooking 

 and illuminating oil, oil-cake for cattle 

 and chicken food, and for manure) and 

 desiccated coco-nut : also tagalog, a 

 food product made from the juice or 

 milk expressed from the fresh meat. 

 (d) Water yields a beverage and vinegar. 

 () Shell rubber-tapping cups, bowls for 

 many uses, house utensils, carved 

 articles, fuel. 



(d] Husk coir-fibre for ropes, twines, mat- 

 ting, carpets, brush and broom fibre, 

 caulking, and always fuel. 

 No. 2 The wood is good for cabinet work 

 and canes, for building, and for fuel. 



No. 3 The leaves are good for basket- 

 making, thatching, screens and partitions, mat- 

 making, midribs for brooms, and the young- 

 leaves (also the young stem tissues) for food. 

 No. 4 The flower- spat he yields syrup, 

 palm sugar, fermented drinks (toddy or tuba), 

 distilled beverage (arrack or wine), vinegar. 



A large, well-organized estate, therefore, can 

 develop many subsidiary industries in order 

 to utilize every waste product, and so increase 

 its profits. 



Going back to the five main items we would 

 say that the shipment of copra, or of the 

 husked nuts, must, for some time at least, be 

 the chief industry. The nuts, where there 

 is a market near enough to take them 

 at a price that does not make it worth 



