July i, 1907.] 



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Robinson Patent. Fish Patent. 



Tapping Tools for "Castilloa." 



[These are views of tools patented in the United States and used on 

 Mexican plantations. The one on the left is the invention of F. S. Rolj- 

 inson, and the other that of W. E. Fish.] 



Sanborn Patent (U. S.). 



[Device for grooving or tapping Casliiha 

 or other rubber-yielding trees.] 



Gl'tta-Perciia Cltti-ng Tool 

 (Malay Peninsula). 



[Primitive native device, "Bil- 

 Hong," for felling trees.] 



M.\cai)am's Comb Pricker. 

 [For Hcvca, in Ceylon. A 

 flat steel blade or comb with a 

 dozen sharp teeth on one side. 

 The blade can be pushed out- 

 ward or drawn inward.] 



Collins Tapping Tools. 

 (Views from the "Ueport on the Caoutchouc o£ Commeice, by James 

 Collins. London: 187^] 



RUBBER PLANTING MISCELLANY. 



A RESIDENT of British New Guinea is reported by the 

 United States consul at Melbourne to have sold a quantity 

 of rubber produced in that island at Sydney at $1.04 per pound. 

 Rubber trees as well as vines are found in New Guinea in abun- 

 dance, which leads to the belief in Australia that this is to prove 

 an important source of rubber. 



The Seafield Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London Feb- 

 ruary 7, 1907, to acquire the Sealicld rubber estate in Klang, 

 Selangor, for ^64,000, of which £16,000 is in cash. Mr. H. K. 

 Rutherford, of London, a part owner of the estate, is one of 

 the first directors. 



Pitakande Tea Co., of Ceylon, Limited.— The 1906 rubber crop 

 was 1,049 pounds, against 820 pounds in the year previous. The 

 company have 448 acres in rubber, including 20 acres planted in 

 1902. The rubber estimate for this year is 2,500 pounds. The 

 company's tea trading afforded an 8 per cent, dividend for the 

 past year. 



The Labu (F. M. S.) Rubber Co., Limited, registered in 

 London February 9, 1907, to acquire the properties known as the 

 Batang Labu estate in Negri Sembilan. The estate was owned 

 in England, one of the owners. Colonel Hon. Charles Lambton, 

 being one of the first directors. Registered office: S, Whittington 

 avenue, E. C, London. 



Samples of plantation Ceara rubber, sent to London from 

 Beira, in Portuguese East Africa, were reported by a leading 

 firm of brokers, according to the Rhodesian AgricuHtiral 

 Journal, to be worth about 5s. 2d. [=$1,252-3] to 5s. 6d. 

 [—$1-33^] "'«h hard fine Para selling at 5s. 2d. 



The number of rubber trees under cultivation in Ecuador 

 is stated by a British consul at about 1,000,000, mostly not old 

 enough to be productive. The trees are of the native Castilloa 

 species. .\ law was passed in 1904 offering a bounty of 10 cents 

 (silver) for each planted rubber tree at the age of 5 years, 

 but the consul had heard of only one application for such 

 bounty— for a plantation of 300,000 trees in the Tenguel district. 



The Matale Planters' Association has proposed, and the gov- 

 ernment of Ceylon probably will be asked to adopt, a rubber 

 ordinance, on similar Imes to the existing ordinances relating to 

 cacao and some other products. To-day a planter who complains 

 of a theft of rubber, rubber plants, or rubber seeds, must identify 

 his property in order to make a case. But under the cacao 

 ordinance, for instance, a suspected person may be obliged to 

 prove where he got the plants he has been accused of stealing. 



The output of dry rubber from the Lanadron estate of the 

 Messrs. Pears, in the Malay States, for .April, amounted to 

 7,305 pounds. 



