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although flourishing and commonly met with in most districts, 

 it is only from the Colony (Lagos) of the Southern Provinces, 

 Nigeria, that copra is exported — to the value in 1918 of £9,278 — 

 and (as above mentioned) here in the Badagry district some of 

 the chiefs and farmers have been encouraged to start plantations, 

 2300 seedhngs in 1918. being distributed to them (Johnson, 

 Ann. Rep. Agric. Dept. S. Prov. Nigeria, 1918, p. 21). The 

 palm is found on the greater part of the coast-line of the Gold 

 Coast, but not utilised generally for the preparation of copra — 



Ann. No. 751, 1913, p. 14). 



Kwitta 



only 



i^ith at Bathurst (Kew Bull, 1892, p. 46) — though perhaps the 

 climate in this colony is too dry for cultivation. Conditions 

 are more advanced in the East Africa Protectorate, where in 

 1911-12 it was reported that " the export of copra still continues 

 on a large scale and big areas are being planted out with young 

 palms; France continues to be the largest single purchaser of 

 East African copra, taking £24,677 worth or 88 per cent. (Col. 

 Rep. I.e.). Copra from Cape Lopez, Gaboon, has been noted in 

 Liverpool (Hillier, Kew Bull. 1913, p. 84), and in Zanzibar for 

 copra the cultivation ranks in importance next to cloves {Eugenia 

 caryopTiyllata ; see p, 318), 45,000 acres being estimated under 

 coconuts in .the two islands (Zanzibar and Pemba) in 1916 

 (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 925, 1917, p. 7). 



The cliief sources of copra are the South Sea Islands (shipped 

 by way of AustraHa and New Zealand), Ceylon, Straits Settlements, 

 and Federated Malay States, Philippine Islands and Guam, 

 French Possessions in the Pacific, Dutch East Indies, Mauritius, 

 Portuguese East Africa and Fiji Islands, from whence in 1913 

 a total of 691,433 centals was imported into the United Kingdom, 

 in which year also approximately double this amount of oil, 

 refined and unrefined came in from Germany, Denmark, Ceylon, 

 AustraUa, France, Belgium, Holland, and the United States. 

 Copra is stated to be the chief product of this palm shipped from 

 Ceylon— nearly 21,000,000 tons in 1914 (Trop. Agric. March 

 1915; Agric. News Barbados, June 1915, p. 201) — this product 

 for expression of the oil in pre-war days went chiefly to France 

 and Germany, and in general it is submitted that the position 

 of the oil-crushing industry at that time was much the same as 

 that for " Palm Kernels " ia.vX 



Coco -nut oil is shipped 

 America in the double Y 



in 



Malay States, March 



Agric. News, Barbados, Oct. 4th, 1919, p. 309). It is largely 

 shipped from Cochin to Europe in large casks or pipes made 

 of the wood of Dysoxylum mdlabaricum, Bedd. (D. glandulosum, 

 Talbot), the " White Cedar " wood of Tavancore, a large tree 

 of Malabar, etc., this wood is recommended because it does not 

 discolour the oil nor nermit of nercolation thrnncrh r.HA rinrAa • 



