IX, A, 2 Pratt: Coconut and its Products 197 



Table XIII. — Coir yarn nnpcrted into the United States.^ 



Year. 



Amount. 



Total 

 value. 



Value 

 per ton. 



1907 > - 



Tons. 

 1.980 

 3,322 

 3,091 

 2,721 

 3,436 

 4,051 

 3,269 



Pesos. 

 333, 994 

 640, 050 

 550,250 

 409,898 

 618, 136 

 827,908 

 624,098 



Pesos. 



168.68 

 192.67 

 178.01 

 150.64 

 179.90 

 204.37 

 190.91 



1908 



1909 



1910 _. 



1911 _ . 



1912 - - 



1913... - 





' Compiled from Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States, No. 

 12, Series of 1908-9, ISlO-ll, 1912-13. 



The various types of fiber product may be judged from 

 Plate V. 



Table XIV shows the amounts of the various coconut products 

 exported from Ceylon during the past ten years. 



Table XIV. — Yearly export of coconut products from Ceylon. 



Year. 



Oil. 



Copra. 



Desicca- 

 ted coco- 

 nut. 



Poonac. 



Coconuts. 



Coir yarn. 



Bristle 

 and mat- 

 tress fiber. 



1904 



Tons. 

 24,981 

 29.741 

 26,954 

 23,900 

 33, 506 

 29,074 

 30,819 

 25,612 

 19,787 

 27,288 



Tons. 

 35, 715 

 19,665 

 22,556 

 19,258 

 38,440 

 38,601 

 38,345 

 39,440 

 31, 427 

 57,706 



T<ms. 



8,356 



9.276 



9,023 



10.403 



12,237 



11,598 



12,143 



14,555 



13,971 



15,328 



Tons. 

 12,290 

 13,535 

 12, 957 

 11,410 

 15,232 

 12,685 

 15,479 

 10,699 

 8,451 

 11, 998 



Thousand. 

 16,957 

 18,047 

 16.013 

 13,813 

 21,188 

 18, 135 

 16, 114 

 15.589 

 15, 983 

 16,858 



Tons. 

 4,536 

 5,653 

 5,150 

 5,311 

 5,658 

 5,130 

 5,439 

 5,776 

 5,193 

 5.762 



Tons. 

 6,340 

 7,546 

 8,246 

 9,239 

 8,713 

 7.404 

 8.820 

 9.759 

 11, 728 

 12,852 



1905 _ 



1906. 



1907 



1908 



1909... ., 



1910 .. - 



1911, -. 



1912 



1913 





OTHER PRODUCTS 



The most important of the remaining products is undoubtedly 

 the fermented drink arrack, made on a large scale from sap 

 excreted by the flowing stem. Many palms are devoted to 

 this purpose, being leased by native manufacturers. The 

 process is too well known to merit further discussion. 



A new use has been found for surplus shells that gives promise 

 of future development. The dry shells are either burned to 

 charcoal in pits, or are destructively distilled in iron chambers. 

 The latter method produces a pyroligneous liquor that finds 



