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M. E. Durain, chemist, Vice-President of the Association of Chemists. 
Paris, July 13, 1888. 
i Wate = S - *16 
Fatty matters - - - - 99°71 
= - “Ol 
Take acids - - E t 00 
Unaceounted for - ~ - *12 
. 100: 00 
The following additional information respecting cocoa-nut butter is 
iven in a Report by the United EN rae (Mr. Teen of Mann- 
eim henla teporis, No. a a 
is dis 
Fail tien s e the Rhine from Mannheim. Shortly after the 
discovery wa was established in thia city under the name 
ob" RC Müller und | Söhne,” which sunk a large amount of capital in an 
enterprise having for its object p production of the new article, to 
which they have given the name nut butter. ll results 
achieved have more than justified dieir "expectations, The firm is not 
able to answer its constant demands. Although in eda only one 
year, it employs 25 — who get from 25 to 75 cents a day, h 
a 40-horse power engine, and produces daily 3,000 kilograms of butter, 
which retails at from 55 to 65 pfennigs, or from 13 to 154 cents per 
pound, or 25 to 30 cents per kilogram. 
The nuts are obtained from almost all lands lying in the tropics, 
especially from the pene Sea and Coral ee Arabia, the coast 
countries of Africa, and South America. Natives in countries where 
eco grow have "m along time used the milk “of these nuts, instead 
It Erat 60 to 70 per cent. of fat, and 23 to 25 per cent. of or- 
ganic substance, of which 9 to 10 per cent. is of albumen. Liebig and 
Fresenius had 
but did not succeed in its production as a substitute for butter. The 
new butter i is of a clear, whitish colour, melts at from 26° to 28° Celsius, 
a 8 - 
Water - die i -  0:0008 
Mineral stuffs - -  0-0060 
Fat : - - 999932 
100-0000 
It hardens at 66°-F. It is better adapted, d ~ the kitchen 
than for the dining-room, that is, for cooking than for the 
uses to which butter is put on our tables. It is neither disagreeable 
to t e nor rs na nt where MX butter runs all T" 
of the oleo ali against which so much has been said in the 
papers during the last two or three years 
