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30 REPORT OF SCHIMMEL & Co. APRIL 1914. 
Ambrette Seed Oil. Ambrette seed is barely to be had for its weight in gold, 
so to speak, and the still available parcels are so small that raw material can fairly 
be said to be completely wanting. It would be most desirable if the West Indies and 
Java and would take advantage of the present state of the market to lay down new 
plantations, for it seems hardly possible that the article can again become so com- 
pletely depreciated as was the case some years ago, provided of course that certain 
limitations be observed in the production. Our stock of oil is for the present exhausted. 
In our Report of April 1912 (p. 25) we enumerated the constants of two samples 
of liquid ambrette seed oil. Since then we have tested a further series of liquid oils 
of our own manufacture, of which the limits of value ascertained are recorded below: 
diso 0,9088 to 0,9161, a) +1919’ to —2°24’, nyooo 1,47421 to 1,48013, acid v. 0,8 to 
2,4, ester v. 137,7 to 180,5, soluble in 2,5 to 6 vols. a.m. of 80 p.c. alcohol. In the 
case of one sample showing an ester value of 167,4, the ester value after acetylation 
was found to be 199,7. 
In one instance the characters showed a certain degree of deviation from the 
normal: dis0 0,9298, “p — 1°34’, nps0o 1,48519, acid v. 0,7, ester v. 139,8; this sample 
did not even make a clear solution with 10 vols. of 80 p.c. alcohol, sol. in 0,5 vols. 
a.m. of 90 p.c. alcohol. In this case the odour also left something to be desired. 
Angelica Oil. As was to be expected, the plantations in Thuringia as well as 
our own angelica-fields in the neighbourhood of our works have furnished a plentiful 
supply, and it was possible to buy raw material for distilling at exceptionally cheap 
prices. Although, as might be expected, the essential oil industry supplied its require- 
ments freely, the farmers were unable to dispose of their surplus root, with the result 
that even at the present time a few remaining lots have been offered in vain at un- 
precedently low rates. Naturally, the growers in Thuringia have been greatly disappointed 
by the poor figures realized by their merchandise, and they have decided to abandon 
the cultivation to a large extent. It is therefore not impossible that the prices of 
angelica root oil, which are at present low, may advance in the course of the summer. 
In any case, the present favourable quotations should be an incentive to lay in a 
plentiful stock. 
Angelica seed oil has been offered from France at about 250.— /rs. per kilo, but 
very little interest has been shown in the article, because this price of course bears 
no proper relation to that of the oil from the root. So far as we are concerned, the 
demand for angelica seed oil has almost ceased to exist, and we were therefore unable 
to make up our minds to pay the price mentioned. 
Anise Oil, Russian. According to the report of our informants, the Russian 
anise-season of 1913/14 opened on 13th September last. At its commencement the stock, 
both of seed and of oil, was utterly exhausted, as the United States, in anticipation of 
the impending increase in Customs Duty, had cleared the remaining balance off the 
market as early as the months of April and May. The total arrivals at the two principal 
markets in Krasnoia and Alexejevka amounted to 1300000 kilos, and the small arrivals 
at markets other than these to about 400000 kilos, a grand total of 1700000 kilos. As 
our informants have ascertained that at the present time no stocks whatever are left 
in the hands of the farmers, the above quantity may also be taken to represent the 
total output of the crop of 1913. The yield, therefore, is one which must be designated 
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