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ALCOHOL FROM COCO-NUT PALMS. 



No producing centre, not even Ceylon, has 

 made so minute and exhaustive a study, during 

 the last few years, of the coco-nut palm and 

 its possibilities as has the Bureau of Science 

 in the Philippine Islands. Whilst Ferguson's 

 " Coco-nut Planter's Manual" should be studied 

 and kept close at hand by everyone interested 

 in the coco-nut and everything to do with its 

 products, and by-products, the Philippine Jour- 

 nal of Science, during the last six or seven years, 

 has added original and up-to-date information, 

 the like of which we have neither seen nor 

 heard of from any other source. Prominent 

 among these investigations have been those of 

 Dr. H. D. Gibbs, on "The Alcohol Industry 

 of the Philippine Isles.'' According to this 

 authority, the Philippine Customs show that the 

 following were the exports of copra and oil 

 from these islands since 1906. The sudden 

 stoppage in the shipment of oil in 1910 was 

 due to a fire having destroyed the factory. 



Copra. Oil. 



Tons of 1,000 kos. Tons of 1,000 kos. 



1906 66,158 



1907 49,082 



1908 : ^..,' ; ... 76,420 2,915 



1909 ! 05,565 M 8 4 



1910 116,375 ... nil. 



