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enc hed 3 Francs per Sen: bate in Peadust. The flowering was hastened by hot and 
7 dry ‘weather. As the factory owners had been unable to get the fats ordered during 
Pine winter, they were forced to reduce the manufacture of pomades and to use the 
emainder of the crop for preparing cnncentrated essences. As a consequence, there | 
was rather more life in the factories, as many unskilled hands had to be taken on. 
Generally speaking, the pomades were of good quality. 
- i bast ‘ane tuberose crop was a failure due toa Severe ple of the flower-stalks. 
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= The ginger imports into Great Britain are indicated as follows in the Time Trade 
_ Supplement): — = 
$ From British possessions: car ae g 
: 3 % PoEast Midian 3. 27-931 ewts,, = 62.5 per cent. 
Me Weer fniies: 2 808. S12 Ay 
3 Peicrs Peanes oo yee F200 = 16:3 15 sy 
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a | total: 44001 cwts. = 98.5 per cent. 
__ from non-British countries: — 3 | 
: Riga te Fo er OSD. Cwts, sh .2: per cent. 
et Ofice couniries- 2.93 2 PIG ee ye Oat ena, ed 
Zz 648 cwts. = «1:5 per cent. 
4 . ‘total: 44649 cwts. = 100 per cent. 
re-exports RES 5, eine ciao 21 418 ee OO as, 
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a The exports from British India exceed 3000 tons yearly, on an overage: The finest 
_ ginger is grown by negroes on Jamaica, who export about 1200 tons annually. The 
_ Sierra Leone product has gone down in price considerably, owing ‘to lack of care and 
to © smuggling. The centre of ginger production is Canton. 
sg _ Imports of cinnamon”) into Great Britain, in 1915, exceeded three times those of 
~ the previous years, the chief countries of origin being: ee 
Ceylon - . . . . 2937000 lbs. = 85.4 per cent. of the total imports 
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total: 3440000 ibs. = 100 percent. of the total imports 
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_ In Ceylon, vast tracts formerly used for growing cinnamon have been planted with 
_ cocoa-nut palms and rubber trees, as these require less care. Prices of cinnamon have 
"gone down, since the cheap Chinese cassia bark has been used in many cases as a 
_ substitute for real cinnamon. In any case, the best cinnamon comes from Ceylon, as 
4 the taste of the bark never remains equally good, if the tree is transplated into other 
countries. Cinnamon is grown on Java too. An inferior quality, Padang cinnamon, is 
_ Annam’s chief article of export. Only quite recently one has begun to cultivate the 
_ *) Bulletin of 7. 5. 18.; Nachr. f. Hand., Ind. u. Landw. 1918, N° 69, p.3. — 2”) The figures apparently 
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