Show how cocoanuts Cocoa nuts arc harvested the busy season on a plantation is when tho nuta ripen which they seem to do all at once and every hand is engaged in gathering and conveying them with carts to the drying ground which is always in close proximity to the bungalow so as to be as much as possible under the eye of the manager here they are split in half longitude nally with an as a feat which is dexterously performed with oae blow by tho man appointed for tuia duty and then spread out to dry the intense heat of the sun rapidly revels the kernel which curls up into a ball the size of your fist and detaches itself from the chell this is now what is called copra and is shipped to tho nearest point of landing in sacks whore it is either transported in bulk to europe or more generally made into oil the refuse oil caks or poo being sold locally for feed for cattle prank lesliea Le monthly |