. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 244 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. WEST INDIAN FRUIT. THE COCOA-NUT IN HAWAII. Ill view of the increased interest in the cocoa-nut palm and its products which is bein^^ taken in several parts of the West Indies, the following information from the Philipjiinr A[/rLculh(,r<d Ret'lew, Vol. I, No. 6, may be found useful. Hints on cocoa-nut cultiva- tion have already been given in the Ayrtndtaral Neics, Vol. VIII, Xos. LSI and 1S7 ; what follows here deals more particularly with the uses of the chief products
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 244 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. WEST INDIAN FRUIT. THE COCOA-NUT IN HAWAII. Ill view of the increased interest in the cocoa-nut palm and its products which is bein^^ taken in several parts of the West Indies, the following information from the Philipjiinr A[/rLculh(,r<d Ret'lew, Vol. I, No. 6, may be found useful. Hints on cocoa-nut cultiva- tion have already been given in the Ayrtndtaral Neics, Vol. VIII, Xos. LSI and 1S7 ; what follows here deals more particularly with the uses of the chief products ol'the plant, ancl with irs : — While tlie (.?ocoajuut one of the few .<;[ of palms native of Hawaii, lieiiig widely luit somewhat S| scatttred along all the coast of the group, its cultiva- tion on an extended scale does not date before 19(J4- or Renewed interest in the cultivation of this extremely useful tree is due in a large measure to the rapid increase in the demand for the oil and filire. The value of eocoa-ruit oil has long been recognized for soap-making and as an illunnnant. Cocoa-nut oil is the basis of a number of patented food compounds and butter substitutes, finding for this latter purpose an enormous .sale within the tropics, because the melting point of the so-called ' butter ' nianut'actured from it is higher than that of either pure butter, or any of the oleo- margarine manufactured from animal fat. Not only is there a more or less legitimate field for the sale of artificial butter made from the cocoa-nut oil in li'it ;, but its as an adulterant is said to be ])iactisud on an enormous scale in Denmark and other l-^nicipran cnuatrirs, wdiere dairying is an imiiortant industry. Cocoa-nut oil is being rapidly displaced as an illuiiiinant by the cheaper petroleum. A characteristic of the nil is that it burns without smoking. The value of the by-products, after the extraction of the oU fro
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