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per forty nuts and three nuts, 71 ; 

 see also Fibre 



Collma (Mexico), 152 



Collecting nuts, danger of sprouting 

 in the trees, 67 ; nuts in Sey- 

 chelles v. the Philippines, 67 



Colour of nuts, the commonest, 557 



Commoroh copra, 384 



Cpmpany promotion yields, 55, 56 



Compost heaps, 301, 303 ; and 

 pests, 219; and their care, 289; 

 how to make them, 86 



Contract labour for clearing land, 

 162; system, the, 211 



Coolie lines, keep them clean, 165 ; 

 let them be good, 163 



Cooling copra, importance of, 138 



Copeland (P. I.), Dr. E. B., 83; 

 on bud-rot in P.I., 445 



Copra and its preparation, 361 ; in 

 Fiji, 471 ; and nuts to the acre, 

 418, 438 ; to the ton, 7, 8, 52, 

 69, 7o, 79, 135. 146, 285, 364, 

 411, 415, 418, 439, .531, 550, 

 657; and oil content, 53, 531; 

 and oil v. nuts, 58 ; and oil yield 

 in Mauritius, 74 ; in the Philip- 

 pines, 5 2 7 an d rotary dryers, 

 138; Barrett on drying, 362; 

 cake, by expressed v. solvent 

 process, 529 ; cake for cattle v. 

 fertilizer, 529 ; comparative table 

 of time to dry, 54, 382, 474 ; cool 

 after drying, 380, 403 ; cost of 

 making a ton, 69 ; cost in Philip- 

 pine Isles, 89 ; cost in Portuguese 

 East Africa, 412 ; cost in Queens- 

 land, 410; cost in Samoa, 417; 

 cost in Trinidad, B. W. I., 425 ; 

 detailed analyses, 527, 529 ; oil, 

 value of, 65 



Copra drying, a Solomon Islands 

 apparatus, 492 ; by the acre, 393 ; 

 cost of the building, 399 ; in 

 Samoa, 441 ; loss of water in 

 Fiji, 474 ; in Mauritius, 74 ; 

 in the Philippines, 527 ; the ap- 

 paratus described, 396, 397 ; the 

 building described, 393-396 ; the 



floor described, 396 ; 48,000 Ib. 

 a day, 395 ; advantages of the 

 rotary system, 388 ; and cooling, 

 138; drying by hot steam, 138; 

 shelves v- rotary dryers, 385 I by 

 shelves and hot-air fans, 401 ; 

 temperature needed, 367, 380 ; 

 10 per cent, water left in, 395 

 Copra, evils of infeiior, 440; ex- 

 ports from East African Protec- 

 torate, 340 ; from Philippine 

 Isles, 85 ; Fiji can make good, 

 473 > Fiji makes it in the field, 

 473, 474 ; from single tree in 

 the New Hebrides, 435, 436 ; 

 how to divide up cost of making, 

 410, et seq. ; how the cost is 

 made up, 413 ; improved by 

 stacking the nuts, 68 ; in British 

 North Borneo, 429 ; in nuts, 

 variations of, 294 ; in G. E.A. , 

 cause of bad name, 143; native 

 made in G.E.A., not good, 146; 

 neither in Fiji, 473 ; in Papua, 

 nuts to the ton, 79 ; in Samoa, 

 exports, 119; in Samoa, yield 

 per acre, 418 ; is the produce 

 of large nuts cheaper than small ? 

 411 ; keep clean when shelling, 

 385 ; keep it clean, 53 ; kilns 

 (Samoa), capacity per day, 

 138; how they are built, 137; 

 length of time to dry, 54, 382 ; 

 in Fiji, 474 ; loss of weight in 

 shipping, 69 ; making good 

 quality discouraged, 472 ; L. C. 

 Brown on cost of, 415, 416 ; over- 

 ripe nuts useless for, 67 ; Papua 

 exports, 77 ; percentage of oil 

 and water, 297, 527 ; of oil and 

 poonac, 71, 527 ; Philippine kind 

 poor, 552 ; picked and dropped 

 nuts, 440, 441 ; price at Zanzibar, 

 51, 52; prices of, 8, 17, 18, 49, 

 50, 603 ; moisture left in, 527 ; 

 need of improvement, 16, 17, 

 473? 5 2 7 5 nuts to make a picul, 

 52 ; nuts to ton, 7, 8, 52, 69, 70, 

 79, 135, 146, 285, 364, 411, 415, 



