Show I Sugar From Sap of Palms Various tropical palms yield a sugary sug-ar sap which Is employed ed by the natives for or making sugar and toddy A summary of Information Information information tion relating relating- specially to the Nipa palm from this point of view Is given in the Bulletin of the Imperial In In- This palm grows grows' In the muddy estuaries 0 of rivers throughout through through- out the eastern tropics The Tho Juice which contains about 15 per cent of sugar Is obtained by removing the flowering shoots and collecting the sap which escapes escapes' If It desired th the Juice can b be fermented for the production pro pro production du of al alcohol It has been estimated that 28 hundredweight of sugar m nr or gallons of 05 95 per cent a alcohol cohol could be obtained ob obtained ob annually from an acre of swamp swampland swampland land planted with Nipa palms The tree occurs over extensive e areas In British North Borneo and the there are considering the question of utilizing It as ns a source of sugar and alcohol |