xii. a, 2 Parker and Brill: Pure Coconut Oil 93 



In this process the meat would be machine-handled from the 

 time it is removed from the shells until the oil and press cake 

 are reached. We estimate that one expeller would be sufficient 

 for a plant handling 45,000 nuts daily, giving an oil output of 

 6 tons. The market quotation s for commercial oil on the Pa- 

 cific coast at present is 27£ centavos (13jj- cents United States 

 currency) per pound, and for Cochin oil the best grade of un- 

 refined coconut oil on the market would be 35 centavos (17.5 

 cents United States currency) per pound. The oil obtained by the 

 process outlined above is water white and is free from acidity 

 and rancidity; it would command the best market prices. This 

 would mean an increase of 155 pesos per ton over the ordinary 

 commercial oil, the grade to which Philippine oil at present 

 belongs. 



Commercial copra press cake finds a place on the market in the 

 form of stock foods and commercial fertilizers. As a stock 

 food it compares favorably with gluten feed, but contains less 

 carbohydrate material and more fat, ash, and fiber. According 

 to data of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station 4 

 100 pounds of coconut meal contains 88.4 therms of net avail- 

 able energy as against 82.7 therms for the gluten feed, due to 

 the higher percentage of fat of the former. (See same bulletin 

 for more data.) 



The possibilities of the press cake obtained from the above 

 method are worthy of consideration not only as a stock food, 

 but for human consumption as well. This product is white and 

 clean, containing a small amount of water and pure oil in amounts 

 dependent, of course, upon the efficiency of the pressing. 



The keeping qualities would be better than in the case of 

 shredded coconut, because of the lower oil content. Samples 

 stored in closed and open containers for several months under- 

 went no impairment in quality. Nutritive value and description 

 of edible products, which we have prepared from samples of 

 this meal, are as follows: 



Table III. — Nutritive value of copra meal from expression of freshly dried 

 coconut meat. 



Per cent. 



Water 7.35 



Oil 32.14 



Ash 4.05 



Crude fiber 37.12 



Protein (NX6.25) 20.34 



'Oil, Paint & Drug Reporter (1916), 90, 63. 

 'Bull. Mass. Agr. Exp. Sta. (1914), 155, 190. 



