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Price of Cassia Oil. 





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„ 1 st Sept . . 



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These price-fluctuations are sufficient to show the pronounced instability 

 of the market. Quite recently a certain degree of quietness has supervened, 

 but it would appear as if only the customary autumnal increase in demand 

 were needed to cause the prices to tighten once more. According to a 

 British Consular Report from Wuchow, the entire cassia trade is now under 

 the control of a ring of Chinese merchants in the province of Kwang- 

 tung, who also control the exports of cassia lignea. The total value of 

 the cassia oil exports in the year 1911 amounted to £28964, of which 

 about one-half was sent out via Hong Kong. It is not stated by what 

 route the other half was exported; we know of no other shipping-port 

 for cassia oil than Hong Kong. It is said that in 1911 2200 cases passed 

 through the last-named port, as compared with 1400 cases in 1910. The 

 value of the cassia oil exported to the United States in 1911 was £ 5560, 

 as compared with £ 4880 in the previous year. On this occasion no 

 further particulars concerning cassia oil are available. 



Cedar Leaf Oil. This oil, which, as is well known, is distilled in 

 the State of Virginia, U. S. A., has lately been employed to a considerable 

 extent in the manufacture of soaps for veterinary purposes, as its peculiar 

 odour is said to banish parasites. There is no difficulty in procuring 

 large quantities of it. 



Cedarwood Oil. We prepare this article on the largest scale imagi- 

 nable, and we only sell oil of our own distilling, because the cheap quality 

 with which the United States at intervals flood the European market has 

 proved to be too inferior to answer the requirements of the perfume- 

 manufacturers. Many a soap-maker who had taken up the cheap American 

 oil from motives of parsimony, has returned in bitter disappointment to ^ 

 the employment of our distillate. In our manufacture an inspissated 

 cedarwood oil for optical purposes also plays an important part. We 

 would, however, seize this opportunity to point out that the slight con- 

 dition of turbidity which is occasionally noticeable in this oil is merely 

 determined by temperature, and immediately disappears when the bottle 

 containing such oil is opened and gently warmed. The turbidity cannot 

 be prevented, but it does not affect the quality of the oil in the least. 



