The Forrest City times., 1905-10-20
EXTENSIVELY USED
cocoANuT SHELLS FIGURE 4,
 GOOD ADULTERANr, A'
'hese e. and Other Foreign produ.,, Enter Into Composition Of spices and Other
 Commodities.

All sorts of queer things cro
 imports. Hundreds of tbo,so up as cocoanuts come here. Most noon'l, Of an idea that the meat of tba ''e nave worked up into cakes and nies ,e n IS sloly 1t Is. What becomes =. ios- smells? The nut can stand ak tue days before it deterioratas So cocoanut goes bad il has tbe s.- s"en oi an oVerrlpe egg. The irn,os. were never known To throu, ''s overheard, so the presumption Is ,a . none Is lost, says the Brooklyn EagIs
 One man who has been in ina ,,ss. aenles that eocoanut shells are eronss up Tor coffee, but admits they are m. slbly used to mix pepper sevass, hundred bags of crushed olive s'a reached here lately from tho Mss iterranean. There were previous .s,. ments. These may form part of ,s. pepper that you will use a few w.sa' from this time. NeA'
 What is the use" said a man vn. has been in the grain business to, nearly half century. "It is o,,. prejudice, anyway. If you take tb. cieanest wheat or four. but ii |, bottle, seal it dramatically and in a few days it will develop veeyf The weevil is harmless outside tha foo, that he is the greatest destroyer o, grain known. Magnified he looks liko tapir, with a long snout. He doesn't bite human like a mosquito or . flea, but he works woe to the men in the grain trade
 The West Indian cockroach is S.;a to be about as destructive to cocoa. nuts as the weeyil is 10 grain here Only a man who has sojourned with West Indian cockroaches on the San Bias coast can properly appreciate them. Some day an enterprising eit- zen will organize packs of Bashl kouay ants to end the coekroaehes. Then il might be like the mongoose and the rat II .5ould be all mon- goose, and nothing left As nothing has ever been known to withstand the onward march of the Bashi Kouay. it is perhaps as well to bear the ills We have as to fly to those We know not of. All the same. the West Indian eoCkroach is said to be responsible for much of the loss of eocoanuts. He is reported to have a habit of boring into the eyes. or monkey face" that destroys the fruit This is a serious proposition. The coacoanut Is a standard of values. The copra of the South Sea islands is the dessieated cocoanut of the East Indian trade, and the main medium of commerce in the South Pacific.
 There is a story. little short of TO- nance, connected with the cocoanut and a Brooklyn man The fiber, or husk of the nut. is converted into thousand uses The first one to handle il here was a little lrishman in Williamsburg. There was money in II and after turning the matter over n his own mind he saw that native la Dor on the Malabar coast was cheaper than in the East river He collected his few assets and settled down a Travancore. He made big success of the venture, and established great East Indian importing house m Manhattan. It is there still Tn the hands of his descendants under an other name. The Williamsburg man 1r I ,, -AH du ascendancy over the rajah Of TraYah' core that his word was practically law He was allowed to coin his own money. and when on his way nome here some years ago he diea :" Cairo.
 And then what becomes of the coeoa' nut shells, cocoa shells, crushed oi'e nuts. and the thousand and one HIT ports that seem valueless to the aver age man They are all used ih on' way or another. The shells oi .H' cocoa bean make a good substitute ~' ground cinnamon or cassia. lheie use for everything in the modsl- market few years ago, Tn Afs'A tina. the cattle. sheep and horses se'' slaughtered for the hides ana shi.s' the carcasses being thrown ih.o p Baron Liebig revolutionized all 'na,, To-day there is not an ounce oi n,.,.o in the abbatoirs along the RiVer i'' .a any more than there is in the h'oa. vanced plant in the United n Every scrap of hide is sent h'ss coms be converted into glue stoch' erIi of the imports on the maniies's "Y .o,. not look well in the newspape. n,, umns, but they have a great eeo ssv
 value. and nothing is wasted Vo-0a'
 His Loyal Subscribers. ,..,ib-
 How do you get so man! moa of ha