Economics.-

Tea

plants

in

California, numbering about

300,000, doing well. One of the clearest burning oils? China oil?is extracted from the tea nut, and enhances the profit of the culture. are

In the oil districts of Brindisi the husk of the utilised olive

formerly used only for fuel; now it has been discovered that by placing it under some chemical process?a French patent?and under a steam press, 20 per cent, of oil can be was

obtained from matter which

was

almost considered waste.