Coco-nuts: The Consols of the East. With special sections on their cultivation in the West Indies, Panama, Latin America, East and West Africa, New Guinea, Malaya, Ceylon, Samoa, Philippine Islands, British North Borneo, South Seas, India, &c., &c. The Preparation of Coprah, The Utilization of Coco-nut Products and By-Products, Catch Crops, Subsidiary Industries, including Cattle Rearing, The question of Manuring, Prevention of Pests, the Maintenance of Health in the Tropics.
8vo. lviii, 506 pp., (50) pp. of ads. Publisher’s decorated full cloth with clear plastic jacket. Illustrated in black/white. Spine and ffe a little yellowed, otherwise nice.
Kommentar: “I know of no field of Tropical Agriculture that is so promising at the present moment as coco-nut planting, and I do not think in the whole world there is a promise of so lucrative an investment of time and money as in this industry.”
