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centners are produced annually, it will be readily seen that 
ets, and consequently into use. 
Now, if these facts are once known, milk, as an article of diet, will 
be more ín demand, and the quantities no longer needed to make butter 
will find their way into the families where formerly pure butter was 
unknown, but where its substitute, cocoanut butter, has taken fast 
hold. 
The principal purpose cf this report is to call attention to this new 
article with a view to intercepting its introduction from abroad as an 
article of import. If it is what chemists and hospital supervisors say 
it is, its manufacture in the United States, where such vast quantities 
of butter are consumed, should be undertaken. 
(Signed) J. C. MONAGHAN, 
United States Consulate, Consul. 
Mannheim, August 6, 1889. 
The preparation of butter from the fresh eocoa-nut is thus deseribed in 
the Proceedings of tne Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 
for June, 1890 :— 
4 been streined off was put into a small cheese press, and the fluid 
** squeezed out added to the ‘butter-milk’ and again churned, a further 
= day (in the cold weather) had a strong taste of cocoanut. Ith 
appearan , 
