. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 260 THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. August 26, COCOANUT INDUSTRY IN TRINIDAD. In his ])an]phlet on 'Statistics of Trinidad Trade,' Professor Carniody shows that nearly 10 millions of cocoa-nuts were exported from the colony in ;3-i. Rather over one half of these went to the United Kingdom, the rest, with the exception of 18-5,000 to other West India Islands, going to the United States. Of copra 2,2(il,803 fb. were exported, and .SG, gallons of cocoa-nut oil. The following remarks are made on this industr
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 260 THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. August 26, COCOANUT INDUSTRY IN TRINIDAD. In his ])an]phlet on 'Statistics of Trinidad Trade,' Professor Carniody shows that nearly 10 millions of cocoa-nuts were exported from the colony in ;3-i. Rather over one half of these went to the United Kingdom, the rest, with the exception of 18-5,000 to other West India Islands, going to the United States. Of copra 2,2(il,803 fb. were exported, and .SG, gallons of cocoa-nut oil. The following remarks are made on this industry':— Cocoa-nuts are exported cliietly for the oil they contain, ^Yhicll is used largely in soap-making. The nuts are sUiiiped in three forms, viz., unbusked, busked, and (after being crushed and dried) as copra. About .50,000,000 nuts are grown annually, of which only one-fifth is exported. The remainder is manufactured locally into oil, wbicb is very largely used by East Indians, (ireat Britain was formerly the principal market for the nuts, but the exports to the f'nited .States are rapidly increasing, probably to sujiply the raw material for a new industry. Copra is the dried white part of the ripe cocoa-nut. It is used for oil making, and is less bulky tlian nuts for export. It contains 65 to 70 per cent, of oil. It is also largely used in confectionery, to which it gives a characteristic agreeable flavour. The oil expressed locally has the advantage of being prepared from the fresh nuts, which are free from rancidity. The residual meal is used locally for cattle feeding. Recently, substitutes for butter and lard have been success- fully prepared from cocoa-nut oil. CACAO IN SURINAM. The Consular Report on the trade of Dutch Guiana for the }ear 1904 has the following note on the prospects of the cacao industry. As already mentioned, the industr}' has suffered greatly from the effects of the ' witch broom ' disease :— The prospects of cacao at the beginning of the year w
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