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or native mills, of which he worked many for 

 years. 



With three nuts to i Ib. copra, this means 

 135 nuts, or the same forty-five nuts to i gallon 

 of oil, and is calculated to be 6r8 per cent, of 

 oil on the total weight of the copra. " There- 

 fore, from experiments made," reports Herbert 

 S. Walker in the Philippine ybz/r/m/ of Science, 

 " to obtain the largest yield of copra and oil, 

 only thoroughly ripe nuts, the husks of which 

 have begun to turn brown, should be used, and 

 it is often advisable to allow the latter to stand 

 in a dry place for a few weeks before they are 

 opened. On the other hand, the nuts should 

 not be stored too long, for in about three 

 months the embryo begins to grow, and, even 

 before that time, those nuts which may have 

 been cracked or bruised in gathering, have a 

 tendency to become rancid." 



Coming to the question of deodorizing and 

 purifying coco-nut and other vegetable oils 

 effectively, and at the same time as economically 

 as possible, brings us to the firm of Edouard 

 Bataille of Paris (i i, Avenue Malakoff), whose 

 vacuum plants for purifying vegetable oils are 

 well known to manufacturers both in Europe 

 and the Tropics. Manufacturers of margarine 

 and others who need large quantities of vegetable 

 oil and butter as their raw material, are now- 

 adays forced to neutralize and deodorize the 

 produce as thoroughly and rapidly as possible 

 before thev can use the oil. It was the dis 



