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writer continued by stating that the — at Kew had been asked 
by the Society if they could afford information as to the manner in which 
cocoanut butter is deodorised in Germany, bi. the had stated that the 
subject had not come before them, and suggested that the information 
might be obtained through the Government of India; the subject being 
of considerable interest to India 
. C. Basu, of the Agricultural Department of Bengal, very 
kindly co communicated the results of his experiments in the following 
«I dock Yó ur nuís of average size, neither very big nor very small, 
and had the kernel reduced to a coarse pulp with a native instrument 
called Karni. The nuts were not fully ripe; the kernel was fully 
formed, but was yet a little soft. After the kernel had been made into 
pulp, the latter was aoa tei a thick piece of cloth to express the 
‘milk.’ A little water had to W added to the pulp to make the milk 
run out freely. The whole of the milk could not, however, be ex- 
pressed, as I had no proper appliances to do the work, The ‘milk’ was 
measured and found to be 3 paos or roughly 24 ozs., of lid quantity 
cS od m be taken as water added to the pulp in the aet of expressing 
t 
* Immediately after the milk had been expressed, it was churned in a 
soda-water bottle. I intended to use the English churn which I have 
recently procured from England, but the quantity of po was too small 
to be put into a churn. I should cube here, that in the WO ciem 
with cocoanut milk which I made in the last cold edie yt 
~ need to add any ice or cold water, in in the present experiment which 
was made sometime about the end of last April, the weather was hot, 
the consequence being that the era refused to ‘come.’ I then added 
a little iced water to the ‘milk’ in the soda-water bottie, and the butter 
grains immediately appeared. Phe whole operation did not take more 
than 15 vea and could be finished in half the time if cold water 
was added in the beginning. All s I had now to do was to wash the 
butter in cold water, and gather it into a Jump. The butter weighed 
just a little over 14 chittaks or 3 Sed that is, 12} per cent. on the milk. 
2 ^ Eve eM encouraging; but my surprise and disappointment 
on Venere the vessel in which I bad put the butter, 
I found that it ^ pir ted and was floating on the top of the water 
CLXXIV.—SOIL AND CULTIVATION IN 
YORUBA-LAND. 
oruba-land v a i i j 
deris Kagel Áo the native territory adjacent to the 
The following irte account of the soil and cultivation in this part 
ofthe world has been prepared by Mr. Alvan Millson, Assistant, Colonial- 
Secretary of Lagos, and lately a Special Commissioner to the interior. 
- The observations made by Mr. Millson with regard to the operation of 
earthworms in cultivating and improving the soil are worthy of special 
