360 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



The tank steamer would then sail with the 

 various fibres and the oil only (i.e., no copra 

 or nuts), together with a cold chamber for 

 the beef, hog products, poultry, and may be 

 edible coco-nut butter, as well as refined or 

 jaggery sugar, made by the ton for consump- 

 tion in the temperate countries. Who can say, 

 therefore, what limitations the future has in 

 store for us when brains, capital, and organiza- 

 tion come together to run the coco-nut estates 

 in friendly rivalry to plantation rubber, each 

 side seeing which can, in the end, pay the 

 best regular dividends on every million sterling 

 invested ? We should not be surprised if the 

 coco-nut companies, taken as a whole, won, 

 although, of course, the dividend of certain 

 picked rubber estates might probably far 

 exceed that paid by any individual coco-nut 

 plantation. 



