TtlE TROftCAL AGRICULTURIST. 
37S 
Comparatively few of the vegetable fixed oils 
of commerce, besides those already mentioned, 
are obtained from plants wliich grow in Ceylon. 
Many oils, however, that are not produced in 
Cej'lon are used in Ceylon either in medicine 
or the arts, so that a pretty full list of the 
>egetal)le and animal oils of commerce miglit 
not be out of place in this work. Tliose speci- 
ally interested in oils not produced in the island, 
Irowever, would doubtless rc([uire more detailed 
information than falls within the scope of this 
woi-k to furnish. The reader desirous of such 
information is therefore referred to such works 
as Watt's or Thorjic's Dictionaries of Chemistry, 
Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis, A-c. Froiu 
Aliens tables I select particulars of a few oils 
" liicii are obtained from plants that are common 
in Ceylon. — ( tiee tabic 1. ) 
The following are seine standard analyses 
Oil-seeds : — 
Water 
Oil ... 
Albumenoids ... 
( 'arbohydrates 1 
Fibre..' / 
A.'^h 
(.T. Anderson.^ 
Lin- 
seed. 
per ct. 
7 -.50 
34-00 
•24-44 
! 30-73 
i 3-33 
Kape 
seed. 
Rape 
.seed. 
per ct. 
7-13 
3(5-81 
•20 -.50 
18-73 
7- 86 
8- 97 
(C. A. 
C ame- 
roii.) 
per ct. 
7-12 
41-33 
18-00 
23-26 
0-66 
4-63 
(T. Anderson.) 
Hemp Cotton 
seed. ; seed. 
per ct.jper ct. 
6-57 
31-24 
31-86 
14-12 
7- 30 
8- 91 
6-47 
31- 84 
•22-60 
32- 72 
6-37 
100 00 100 00 100 00 1 100 -00 i 100-00 
The following are analyses of various Oil-cakes used as Feeding 
Cameron's "Elements of Agricultural Chemistry " :— 
Htutl's from .Johnston and 
Linseed 
Cake. 
Rape 
Cake. 
Palm- 
Cotton SeedCake. 
Cocoa 
Cake. 
Poppy 
Dodder 
Locust 
Beans. 
nut 
iNleal. 
! 
Decorti- 
cated. 
Undecor- 
ticated. 
Seed 
Cake. 
Seed. 
Cake. 
Water 
Albumenoids 
Oil 
Cai-bohyd rates 
Fibre 
Ash 
per cent. 
7 to 10 
•22 to 30 
9 to 13 
30 to 36 
8 to 10 
3 to 8 
per cent.iper cent. 
10 ' 8 
30 16 
10 18 
.32 ; 37 
10 ' 16 
8 : 5 
per cent. 
11 
35 
14 
24 
9 
7 
])er cent. 
12 
22 
8 
32 
20 
6 
per cent. 
14 
20 
8 
311 
■20) 
' 
per cent. 
12 
32 
6 
38- 
per cent. 
12 
30 
8 
42 
8^ ■ 
per cent. 
)4 
7 
1 
68 
7 
3 
100 
1 100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
The following ai-e analyses of other cakes by J. Hughes : — 
Dombo. 
Sur- 
China 
Cin- 
Pun- 
Coconut Poonac. 
goorgie. 
Bean. 
Selly. 
jam. 
Chekku 
Mill. 
Water 
Oil 
"Albumenoids 
Carboliydrates 
Fibre 
t Ash 
percent. 
10-16 
13-20 
18-87 
31-67 
17-50 
8-60 
per cent. 
10-80 
1-83 
33-87 
19-59 
18-17 
15-74 
per cent.iper cent. 
11 60 9-78 
7-63 ; 7-50 
40-87 ; 30 -.37 
•2719 •27-12 
6-24 12-21 
6-28 13^02 
per cent. 
10-34 
8-74 
25-75 
43-75 
4-90 
6-52 
per cent. 
13-04 
10-93 
18-87 
43-06 
6- 30 
7- 80 
per cent. 
10-14 
8-67 
2094 
41-21 
8-58 
10-46 
100-00 
100-00 
99-81 
100-00 
100-00 
100 00 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 
T Containing .sand 
3-02 
3-00 
5-42 
9-06 
6-54 
•38 
4-86 
4-41 
4-11 
2-50 
3-02 
2-02 
3- 35 
4- 32 
(To be continued.) 
THE EILA TEA COMPANV OF CEVLON 
LIMITED. 
At an exlraordin.ary fieneral Meetine of Shiire- 
holdcrs held today in tlie Compuny'B registerfl office, 
No. 0 Prince Street, the following resoliitiong pagpcd 
at the Extiaordinsry Gercral Meeting held on Itli 
nl'imo were confirmed, viz: — 
Ist, That the KanangMii^ Estate be purchased by 
the Company. 
•iml. That the Capital of tlie CompaDy bo inoreiiied 
to R.3OO,00O. 
3rd. That the D'reotorB be aiithoriz<>d to iisiie 
Detonture Bonds to the cxtpnt of R100,00l)— a« re- 
quired for t'if< purposes of the Compuny, ho«riDg 
ipterect at 7 per cent, J. M. Ropebt:^on & Co. 
Agente and Socretsriee. 
liEslN-oi'Ab. '—We owe au apoloey to a 
planting friend who sent us a sfccrt time ago a 
specimen of a Etriking-looking stocc, of which he 
has a good deal on his property, for not in- 
formmg him before now about its nature, Mr 
Geo, Armitage pronounces it lo be " resinous- 
opsl, a very pieasing coloured and marked form 
of Quarlz-resinits about which "Dana" informs 
us in the following jjaragraph : — 
Common Opal.— In part translucent ; ui) milk-ova/, 
milk-whuo to sreeni.sb, jellowsb, bloifb ; (h) £etin- 
opal (Wad sopal. Pecbopal. Germ.), wax- hooey, to 
ooher-jeilow, wi h a rfsinoua luster; (c) dull oJive- 
prepn and mountnii- r^'en; {d) brick-ieJ. Includea 
Seminpal, nilbopal D cm. 
Nicely pubsbed j ap r.wei£ht8 or olher uaefal 
articles o( rtsiU'O^al would look well. «. 
