Cocoanut Butter. 



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antee, bills at nine months (with a right to a further three 

 months' credit on part repayment), are also authorised on 

 green hops deposited in the bank warehouses. The bank 

 was, however, compelled to refuse these last-mentioned loans 

 last year. Dealers, dryers, buyers, and brewers are allowed 

 nine months' credit on prepared hops, without the right to 

 prolong. Brewers can also get loans on the security of the 

 declared value of their business (i.e., on which they pay taxes) 

 in order to pay for hops of local production. The services 

 thus rendered to hop growers by these measures are reported 

 to be incalculable. An annual Hop Fair is held at Warsaw 

 in the month of September. Last year 2,813 cwts. were put 

 on the market, but one-third of the crop had been disposed 

 of previously. The prices ranged from 114 to 159 shillings, 

 per cwt. for hops of first quality, and from 93 to 114 

 shillings for those of second quality. The quotations were 

 very much lower in the previous year, but in 1898 the best 

 hops fetched as much as 213, and the seconds 165 shillings, 

 and even these prices have been surpassed in former years. 

 The headquarters of the first Russian Society of Hop Growers, 

 which have hitherto been, at Kharkoff, in South Russia, have 

 now been transferred to Warsaw. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2578. Price \d.'\ 



The United States Consul at Mannheim has recently re- 

 ported to his Government that the manu- 

 ^Butter** facture of cocoanut butter is an industry 

 of some importance in that city. The 

 product is manufactured from the kernels of cocoanuts, and 

 is sold under the name of " palmin," which is a registered 

 trade term. It is used by cooks as a substitute for butter 

 and lard. It is generally white in colour, and almost taste- 

 less. It melts at about 80 deg. F., and is of the consistency of 

 mutton or beef tallow. It is said to contain more than 99 

 per cent, of vegetable fat, with only a small trace of water; to 

 "keep" for three or four months in a cool room, and to be 



