NEW MOTIVE POWER
INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL PROM - . MALAYAN PALMS. Reports from London state that a company has recently been organised for dealing with the products of the nipah palm, which grows in the Malay States. Hitherto this variety of palm has been chiefly used for its provision of " attaps," the dried fronds which are used by every native! to roof his house. It is also tapped by the native, much as a rubber tree is' tapped, for the extraction of its juice, which is allowed to ferment and is used as a beverage. The fruit of the palm is the well-known areca nut. It has been found that the nipah palm gives up its juice, when tapped, in such large quantities that a yield of 1200 gallons per acre per year is a conservative estimate, and an excellent industrial alcohol is the result. The yield is. apparently progressive and continuous, and from a planted area of about 2000 acres it is calculated that a yearly output of 2,00ft,000 gallons of rectified alcohol would be obtainable after five years.
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Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2236, 17 November 1928, Page 2
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