| Show kukui nut has added to wealth of hawaii A profitable industry has developed in hawaii in tho the extraction of oil of the kukul put tree in days gone one by a business of re spectacle size was built up around this commodity tho the output reaching about gallons a month in IWO 1850 the oil was then used for or lighting homes the nuts being burned after being strung together on a stick it also was employed as a wood preservative modern chemists have seen its value in the manufacture of soft coup oil varnishes paints and the tha kukul trees grow wild on every island of the territory huge groves of them flourishing in many mountain valleys it Is estimated that there are not less than acres of the trees from this source not cot less than tons of nuts might bo be gathered annual ly even should the yield be reduced to tons due to the inaccessibility of some of the trees the commercial yield still would be in the neighborhood of gallons gallong ot of oil for twelve ni months oaths |
