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[November, 1911. 



with 15,400,000 quintals), Hungary 

 (52,400,000 quintals as compared with 

 49,400,000 quintals), Italy (52,300,000 

 quintals as compared with 41,700,000 

 quintals); and India (100,800,000 quintals 

 as compared with 97,400,000 quintals). 

 The production of wheat is smaller this 

 year as compared with last year's produc- 

 tion in Prussia (23,500,000 quintals as 

 compared with 24,800,000 quintals), 

 Rournania (26,000,000 quintals as compar- 

 ed with 30,200,000 quintals), Russia in 

 Europe (150,900,000 quintals as compared 

 with 190,300,000 quintals), and in the 

 United States (179,200,000 as compared 

 with 189;300,000 quintals). 



For the other cereals, the Single 

 Numerical Statement for the countries 1 

 considered is : for rye 1)6*4 ; barley 99*5 ; 

 oats 88 '9; and maize 86'6, 



The two countries which, due to their 

 poor harvests have principally contri- 

 buted to the fall in the figures of the 

 Single Numerical Statement are the 

 United States and Russia, 



The Bulletin also contains information 

 as to the condition of the cotton crop, 

 which in the United States and Japan 

 promises about an average harvest, and 

 in Egypt an outturn about 9 per cent, 

 below the average. 



Of especial interest is a comparison 

 which has been made between the 

 estimates of the present year's wheat 

 production, as published by certain 

 influential private periodicals, and the 

 official figures published by the Institute. 

 The differences brought to light by 

 this comparison, and which in several in- 

 stances arevery considerable, illustrate 

 the utility of the work accomplished by 

 the Institute in thus exercising a control 

 upon the large number of harvest 

 estimates which are placed before the 

 public, by furnishing, in one synthetic 

 report, the official figures of production 

 for the whole world. 



COPRA. INDUSTRY'S RAPID 

 INCREASE. 



Offers Splendid Inducements for 

 Investment of Capital— 100 Acre 

 Plantation A Small Fortune. 



(From the Manila Bulletin, 

 October 2, 1911.) 

 The cultivation of copra offers one of 

 the best inducements in the Philippines 

 for the investment of capital and the 

 great demand for copra opens a splendid 

 market for the plauter. 



The copra industry is rapidly increas- 

 ing and promises to soon be in the lead 

 in local industries at the present rate of 

 growth. Recent discoveries show that 

 a splendid butter can be made from the 

 coconut, while the oil of the copra is 

 considered very valuable. 



In Reciprocity and the Philippines by 

 Mr. Harold M. Pitt, appears an interest- 

 ing article on copra and its cultivation, 

 and the possibilities offered in its culti- 

 vation for the investment of capital. 

 Mr. Pitt says :— 



Copra is the meat of the coconut from 

 which the water has been partially or 

 wholly evaporated. It is valuable princi- 

 pally for its oil content and is a product 

 the demand for which has been increas- 

 ing rapidly. The Philippines are pecu- 

 liarly well adapted to its production. 



The coconut tree grows readily in 

 almost every section of the Archipelago, 

 the most favourable localities being 

 those adjacent to the seashore. There 

 are many articles of general utility 

 obtained from the tree itself and the 

 nuts, but Copra is the most valuable, and 

 in late years the attention of growers 

 has been centered in its pioduction. 



At the present time the Philippines 

 are supplying about one-third of the 

 world's consumption of Copra. The best 

 market has developed in Marseilles, 

 France, where manufacturers of coconut 

 oil have perfected methods for its reduc- 

 tion to a semi-solid state that permits of 

 its use as a base for artificial butter as 

 well as for various toilet articles. Coco- 

 nut oil is also being used to a consider- 

 able extent in the place of cottonseed 

 oil, and there are other usds for it 

 developing from time to time which 

 give assurance of a steadily increasing 

 demand and a firm market, 



Prior to American occupation but 

 little attention was given here to the 

 preparation of Copra from the meat ox 

 the nuts, and the records of Spanish 

 times contain no mention of exports of 



