ONE SSSENTIAL OILS. 
Sa e third Senne took. ‘the prize for. Bs douR NCI oetiDa, for it was sophisticated 
: in such a barefaced way that it could not have been recognized as sandalwood oil at 
R all, as will be seen from the table below: — 
~ 
Sample Outside figures of pure oil 
Giger eg oY 08090 0.974 to 0.985 
teense eee O20! — 16° to-— 20° 45’ 
Spee pee. es, 146983 1.504 to 1.508 
Safe vaitie.< 0° 2x ORD », to" 29 
5 total santalol . 2.2 per cent. not below 90 per cent. 
Solubility . . Insoluble even in ~ soluble in 3 to S5vol. and more 
96 per cent. alcohol of 70 per cent. alcohol 
3 The oil was adulterated with paraffin, and to such an extent that it would have 
q ‘been more correct to designate it as paraffin oil perfumed with sandalwood oil, for 
_ there were but traces of sandalwood-oil in this mixture. 
It is unheard of, and shews an incredible amount of impertinence to bring such 
a concoction into the market as sandalwood oil. The oil had been offered us from 
Hamburg but, as was revealed by the label, it originated from Bohemia. 
According to A. Chatterton’) the “Mysore State Monopoly” realized R 1987000.— 
from the sale of 1862 tons of sandalwood in the administrative year 1913/14. Private 
concerns are not permitted to distil sandalwood oil in Mysore; on the frontiers of the 
district, chiefly in the southern Kanara district, the wood is distilled in a small way. 
Much oil is produced in Kanouj (Punjab). When at the end of 1914, the sandalwood 
market was very slack in consequence of the war, it was decided to erect an experi- 
mental factory for the production of sandalwood oil on a large scale. It is stated 
that as a result of preliminary experiments a considerabl quantity of sandalwood oil 
has already been distilled which is said to equal European-distilled oil in quality. 
_ The sale price was R 18.— per lb. 
a Although sandalwood oil, though of a very poor quality, has been produced in 
India, from time immemorial, this venture is something quite new, the work being 
_ done after a method quite different (¢) from the usual way in India. The annual sandal- 
wood auctions will be continued, the new factory buying its sandalwood from the 
“Forest Department’, at the same price other buyers had to pay. If it is found that 
the industry can be made to pay, it is intended to build a factory large enough to 
work up the whole annual sandalwood crop of southern India. 
Seeing that the English have failed so far to produce a sandalwood oil of a quality 
satisfying even modest requirements in India, there can be little doubt as regards the 
outcome of the contemplated ventute. 
An article published recently?) gives a description of the distillation and chemistry 
of sandalwood oil without however, adding anything new to the subject. 
Oil of Spearmint. On the annual production of spearmint oil in the United 
States see page 42. SEBS 
Oil of Turpentine. Literature on the desirable exploitation of German Forests 
_ for the purpose of obtaining the resin has become fairly voluminous. In the following 
_ ~pages we bring a short resume of the most important publications on the subject. — 
1) Mysore Economic Journal; Chemist and Druggist 88 (1916), 466. — *) Perfum. Record 7 (1916), 47, 68. 
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