484 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
Fourteen beasts fed on linseed cake averaged at eighteen months 
old 13°5 Ib. live weight the week, or only ? Ib. less than the heaviest 
at the show, on less food, especially using palm-nut meal. 
According to others, meal is not recommended owing to its going 
rancid and its indigestibility. 
19. ManuriaL VaLvE oF KerRnext Cake.—The manurial value 
of palm-kernel cake is £1 4s. for the ration as given per ton. 
20. West ArricaN SHIPPING IN RELATION TO Farm PRopUCcE.— 
Before the advent of the German line, the West Coast was at the 
mercy of the Shipping Combine, as it is now, freights being arranged 
accordingly. , 
Since the Government has fixed maximum freight rates, shippers 
now know the largest amount they will have to pay, but even so 
freights are extremely high, and with no outside competition are 
unlikely to be brought down very much. 
21. BIpLIoGRAPHY OF THE Or Patm.—Monsieur Chevalier’s 
Les Végétaux Utiles de V Afrique tropicale francaise, Fasc. VII (1° partie), 
“* Documents sur le Palmier & Huile,”’ contains a great deal of valuable 
information on the subject of the Oil Palm. The Oil Palm, by J. H. 
Farquhar, summarizes the results of a year’s investigations as to 
the growth and yield of the Oil Palm in the Southern Provinces of 
Nigeria. 
In the monograph Oil Seed and Feeding Cakes, issued by the 
Imperial Institute, a complete account is given of the new British 
palm-kernel industry. 
