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According to a paper by Wright 1 ), endeavours are made to 

 render the citronella industry more remunerative by using the grass 

 from which the oil has been removed as raw material for the manufacture 

 of paper, for which purpose it is said to be very suitable. 



We need not enter more fully into the further details given by 

 Wright on the valuation and judging of citronella oil, as these appear 

 to be chiefly based upon the work of Sage, with which we have 

 already dealt in our last Report 2 ). We also consider that the content 

 of total geraniol represents the principal factor in judging the value 

 of citronella oil; but Schimmel's test, carried out by itself, will, 

 according to our experience, always give useful data for a rapid test 

 of the quality of a citronella oil. 



Clove Oil. On the harvest of 1904/5 there is now available 

 a Report from the British Vice-consul in Pemba, in which it is 

 stated that no fewer than 755543 frasileh 3 ), i. e. 227178 cwts., have 

 been gathered. With this result, the harvest has, as far as statistical 

 data go, far exceeded every former record. Of the above-named 

 quantity, 675683 frasileh belong to Pemba, and only 79680 frasileh 

 to Zanzibar itself. As might have been expected, the 1905/6 harvest 

 in Pemba left something to be desired, for a rich crop is usually 

 followed by a failure of the harvest. In Zanzibar, however, the 

 harvest has given a medium result. The price, which at the beginning 

 of 1905 came to 11/4 per frasileh for Zanzibar cloves, remained at 

 that level until about May, and then gradually rose to 12/8, and 

 subsequently in July- August to 18/8. In September a decline set in, 

 and the quotations fell down to 16/- at the end of December. The 

 average price for 1905 was 14/5^2 for Zanzibar and 13/5V2 f° r 

 Pemba cloves. The fluctuations in the prices were chiefly due to 

 speculative enterprise in England and India. 



The total value of the export in 1905 was £ 287073; of this, 

 the individual principal consuming countries received supplies of the 

 following values: — 



United Kingdom 



• £ 54709* 



against 



£ 



119913 in 



1904 



British India . . 



132236 



>> 





9 8 454 



„ 



Holland . . . 



36992 



j) 





24866 



>> 



America 



32735 



)> 





47651 



>> 



Germany . . 



12089 



55 





9221 



„ 



France. . 



3615 



?j 





16274 



)j 



Austria- Hungary 



2 573 



J* 





3 944 



>> 



*) The Times of Ceylon, April 3, 1906. 



2 ) Report April 1906, 19. 



8 ) Comp. estimate by the German Consul at Zanzibar. Report April 1906, 21. 



