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COMMERCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC NOTES ON ESSENTIAL OILS. as) 
Whilst the average price per ton of sandalwood was about £ 23 before 1912, it 
then rose to £ 60, in 1914 to #70 and in 1917 to £105 to £ 114. 
; The two factories erected in Bangalore had up to 31st December 1918 together 
treated 2113 tons of sandalwood and prepared 212371 Ibs. oil. 196000 lbs. of this 
were sold, which brought to the state of Mysore in the year 1917/18 £ 183300. 
The following compilation gives a view of the value of the exports of sandalwood 
and sandalwood oil since 1913: — 
Value of sandalwood | Ser adiweud oil 
AO1SAe Oe 128.626 : Ase 
LOLA I a Bee 5 O18 | ei 
POPS IO as ee ee OS 105 ue 
E PONG/AT ee eee ee BO O5I £ 548231) 
POPP IIS es OS POAT , 145713 
MISHA i OS ee 050% GE 1297-563 
Formerly the most important exporting ports for sandalwood were Mangalore, 
Tellicherry, Calicut and Cochin. Now the oil is generally exported from Madras, 
_ Mangalore, Calcutta and Bombay. 
The following tables show to what extent the trade in sandalwood, and the sandal- 
wood oil industry have changed since the war. 
Export of Sandalwood in year 1913/14 Export of Sandalwood oil in year 1918/19 
ae . Amounts Destination aroun Value 
tage / 
estination ip hee aaa Great Britain . 10151 gall. 4 155013 
Germany ... . . .° 43.4 percent. fapans. 22 6 4234 61 986 
S22 5 2 bY Gece nme France 374 ‘ ' 7 284 
ef i eae ee ee ie ge yo» Hongkong . . 87 ,, » 1588 
aes = Se utd a Oe Ce a ” ” Egypt Gee ni iy Reem hs Ks of 859 
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1 IS ai ae pie cuap Set gy JAVA Gee Ae oa Oia oil 190 
eae 2 i ees uae , ae ir 0.4 1s <9 Australia. o> 23. ” ” 463 
BYP Fe SB on Other countries 1204, i 180 
Paper ts he OB in 5, 
Total: 14985 gall. £ 227563 
Six years ago B. J. Sham Rao”) had commenced to plant sandalwood trees in the 
Central Province of East India near Berar. The trees were raised from Mysore seed 
in shadowy and protected places, and developed very well, without great expense of ~ 
_ maintenance. The wood was scarcely distinguished from Mysore sandalwood in smell 
_ and build, and it is to be expected that it also will yield a good oil. 
A satisfactory explanation of the appearence of the spike disease on the sandal- 
wood trees could not up to the present be found. Butler?) assumed that a poison is 
_ present in the sap; later, a connection between the occurrence of certain rust fungi 
_ on the Lantana-shrubs and the appearence of the disease, seemed capable of con- 
_ firmation’). A.B. Jackson®*) recently gave some information in the “Indian Forester’, 
which perhaps touches the true origin of the disease. Up to the present neither 
fungus nor insect has been found as originator of the disease. Spike generally appears, 
_ where the sandalwood plants stand thickly on the ground, often at a great distance 
_ from the next infected area. Since the sandalwood tree may be a root parasite, which 
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s 1) The Calcutta values are wanting. — 7%) The Indian Gireatie According to Perfim. Record 11 (1920), 
a — *) Cf. Report Oct. 1908, 61. — *) Cf. Report Oct. 1918, 95. — 5) Perfum. Record 11 (1920), 32. 
