58 REPORT OF SCHIMMEL § Co. APRIL 1914. 
seeing that last year the supplies in the consuming countries were drained dry, down 
to the smallest stock of the smallest consumer. The subsequent course of the lemon. 
oil market during the second half-year of the present season will be determined in 
the last resort by the prospects of the new crop, which it will be possible to estimate 
to some degree about the month of June. A favourable development of the young 
flowers and a plentiful and healthy setting of the new fruit will have a depressing 
effect upon the market for “prompt” oil, whereas poor flowering and climatic conditions 
adverse to the setting of the fruit will stiffen the price of this season’s oil. 
Mandarin Oil. The crop is small, but so is the demand. The price of this jai 
has fluctuated several times between 40 -@ and 35 -Z%. 
Orange Oil, bitter. In September of last year the quotation stood at the very 
high level of 31 - to 32 &, the stocks having shrunk to an unprecedented extent. 
In spite of small arrivals, however, the price of this oil has dropped in the course of 
the autumn and winter down to 23 -Z@, as a result of the poor demand, and at this 
figure it is now to be had. It is probable that in the course of the next six months 
an improved demand will set in for this oil and that, as a result, the price will ad- 
vance again. 
Orange Oil, sweet. In September of last year the basis price for old sweet 
Orange oil was about 30 -#, and the approximate price paid for new oil for early 
delivery was 27 -&. The prospects of the crop and the manufacture were not good, 
and gave no reason for suspecting any serious fall in the price of the oil. Nevertheless, 
no sooner had the new oil made its appearance than prices began to recede seriously, 
the principal reason of this state of things being one of serious portent for the essential 
oil industry of Sicily and Calabria, namely the appearance of a powerful competitor 
in the shape of West Indian orange oil, the quality of which is reported to equal that 
of very fair average Sicilian oil. Sweet orange oil has in the past been a favourite 
object of local speculation, because the quantity produced is relatively small, and the 
chances of making an easy profit are considerable. The appearance upon the market 
of a new source of production has had a paralysing effect upon the local love of 
speculation, and so the article has been left to itself, that is to say to the natural 
play of supply and demand. Thus it happened that in spite of the really very poor 
output the value of the oil fell in the course of the months of October to February 
from 27 -& down to 24 -& and still less, the fall being only interrupted by a few 
weeks of slight improvement in the closing days of December and the beginning of 
January. It is scarcely to be expected that there is any chance of considerable upward 
movements in this oil in the future, in particular because the world’s consumption of 
it appears to be growing steadily less. The stocks now existing in this country are 
not important, and certainly smaller than those at the corresponding period of last year. 
Lemon Oil. Dr. C. Kleber, of Passaic, N.J., gives us the following information 
with regard to the citral-content which has lately been observed in oil of lemon. 
In former years the normal citral content of oil of lemon was from 4,3 to 4,8 p.c., 
but such oils are nowadays very rarely found in commerce. By far the great majority 
of the samples of lemon oil which now come under.our observation only shew citral- 
