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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1903. 



LITERATURE OF INDIA-RUBBER. 



THE DATING AHEAD EVIL. 



LES PLAN CAOl'Ti ' ' II A Gl'TTA. EXPLOITATION, 



Culture, it Commerce dans tous lea cays cuauds. Par Hem i Jumelle. Paris : 

 Au^ustin Challamel. 1903. [Paper, 8vo. Pp. XII + 54a. Piicc 12.50 irancs.J 



""T^IIE author of this work, adjunct professor in the (acuity of 

 *■ sciences at Marseilles, in charge of the study of colonial 

 vegetable products in connection with the chamber of com- 

 merce in that city, has long since become recognized as an au- 

 thority in his special field. The present is an outgrowth of a 

 smaller work from the same pen, five years ago, on the Caout- 

 chouc and Gutta-percha species of the French colonies. In 

 his new work Professor Jumelle deals first with the nature of 

 Caoutchouc and of latex and methods of its collection and co- 

 agulation, after 3S5 pages are devoted to an enumeration of 

 Caoutchouc species, including a description of each, its geo- 

 graphical distribution, its yield, character of product, etc. The 

 remainder of the volume is devoted to a similar treatment of 

 Gutta-percha species. Fifty-seven illustrations and a good in- 

 dex add to the completeness of the work. 



ATRAVERS L'AMERIQUE KQU ATORIALE. L'AMAZONIE. PAR AU- 



gustc Plane, Charge de missions comraerciales. Paris: Pion-Nournt et Cie. 

 1903. [Paper. i6mo. Pp. xm \ 284 i 15 plates and map. Price, 4 francs.] 



No other single work in our knowledge contains so much def- 

 inite information regarding the principal rubber producing re- 

 gion of the world, with notes on the people, conditions of work 

 and trade, river transportation systems, and, particularly, the 

 location of the rubber forests and the details of collecting and 

 marketing rubber, as the book above named. The book records 

 the experiences and observations of a competent authority, 

 who has spent several years in the Amazon valley, and the book 

 is thoroughly up to date, recording events up to the end of the 

 past year. One point to be noted is the inclusion in the book 

 of the Brazilian laws relating to concessions of rubber lands. 

 A number of half tone views relate to rubber working methods, 

 and to life on the Amazon and its chief tributaries. This is a 

 companion volume to " Le Perou," by the same author, noticed 

 in The India Rubber World for April. 



LE CAOUTCHOUC AU RIO-BENI. NOTES SUR LA VEGETATION ET 

 ['Exploitation de VHevea en Bolivie. Pa; P. Cibot. Pans : 1903. [Reprint- 

 ed Irom ihe Journal t C Agriculture Tropical*. Large Svo. Pp.12.] 



This is a comprehensive summary of the observations of 

 its author during six years spent in the rubber regions of Bo- 

 livia, giving many details as to the number of trees in a given 

 area, rate of yield, methods of preparing the product, etc. It 

 is interesting to note that though the author has been surround- 

 ed all these years with such immense natural supplies of rub- 

 ber, including large areas not yet exploited, his work closes 

 with the assertion that the future dependence of the world for 

 rubber must be the cultivation of this product, on account of 

 the decreasing yield of the Hevea trees under constant tapping. 



NOTES OK BOLIVIA. COMPILED AND PREPARED FROM DIFFERENT 

 Sources. By Pedro Suarez, a. m. i. c. e., Consul General for Bolivia in Great 

 Britain. London: Unwin Brothers, Limited, 1102. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 79. 

 Price, 1 shilling 6 pence. 1 



A convenient handbook of information for intending inves- 

 tors, with maps and illustrations. The author says in his pref- 

 ace : " I have gone into the rubber industry in considerable de- 

 tail, as I come from the districts where it is the chief occupa- 

 tion." 



IN CURRENT PERIODICALS. 



Multiplication de la Liane a Caoutchouc LanJotphia Owatiensis. 

 By (Jeorges I.e Testu. [By means of slips, or by " marcottage" ; ger- 

 mination of the seeds is uncertain. \= Journal d' Agriculture Tiopicale, 

 Paris. 111-22 (April 30, 1903.) Pp. 992. 101. 



L' Iltvca sur le Rio Marcapata (Perou). By P. Cibot. [Review of a 

 recent work by Auguste Plane. \— Journal d 'Agriculture Tropicale, 

 Paris. I II-22 (April 30, 1903.) Pp. iio-iii. 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World: While 

 the writer does not want to be quoted by name, he can- 

 not refrain from expressing his appreciation of an editorial ar- 

 ticle which appeared in the May 1 issue of your paper. We refer 

 to that which passed upon the practice of many rubber con- 

 cerns of dating ahead. The article was timely and necessary 

 and we believe is calculated to do a lot of good. In our opin- 

 ion oft times a concern is its own worst and perhaps almost sole 

 competitor in such practices, inspired frequently by the mis- 

 statements of a salesman who must give some excuse for fail- 

 ing to secure business on regular lines. We are convinced that 

 individual effort of the character recommended by you will ac- 

 crue to the benefit of the individual and of the trade at large. 



a manufacturer. 



May 11, 1903. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE Meiji Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Tokyo, Japan) 

 send as a Price List (printed in Japanese and English) 

 of a line of their products in mechanical rubber goods, with 

 illustrations of delivery hose garden hose, steam hose, suction 

 hose on spiral wire, air brake hose, armored hose, hydraulic 

 hose, belting (round and square edge), packing, valves, buffers, 

 body blocks, stoppers, truck tires, gage glass washers, rubber 

 covered rollers, balls, mats, matting, and interlocking rubber 

 tiling. H. Isono & Co., 12, Nichome, Ginzu, Japan, are sole 

 agents. [8JS"X6"- 24 pages.) 



Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City, New 

 Jersey), makers of a full line of mechanical rubber goods, de- 

 scribe the same in a well got up catalogue that tells prospec- 

 tive buyers just what they need to know about the goods of- 

 fered. Prices are given, and the illustrations are both numer- 

 ous and notably good. \_\Yz' X 63/". 112 pages.] 



The Berlin Rubber Mfg. Co., Limited (Berlin, Ontario) 

 send us their fourth annual illustrated catalogue and price list 

 of Rubber Boots and Shoes, for 1903 o\, covering, besides their 

 regular first quality and second quality brands, a special qual- 

 ity in lumbermen's goods, marked " Duck Neveibreak." The 

 " Berlin " rubber heels are also listed in this book. [3^"X 

 %%". 56 pages.] 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) issue 

 a new edition of " How to Repair Tires," including incidental 

 descriptions of all the types of tires manufactured by this firm, 

 with illustrations. [3^ // X5 // - 39 pages.] 



Jenkins Brothers (No. 71 John street, New York) issue a 

 copyrighted brochure, " Points on Packing," dealing with the 

 unvulcanized India rubber packing which this firm originated 

 more than 25 years ago. \_'iYi"yfi%". 16 pages.] 



Merchants Rubber Co. (No. 72 Reade street, New York), 

 successors to William Morse & Co., with Mr. Morse as presi- 

 dent, issue a neat illustrated catalogue of rubber clothing and 

 mackintoshes, of which they handle a very full line, from a 

 leading factory. [5X"X(>}4"- 4^ pages.] 



The R. H. Smith Manufacturing Co. (Springfield, Mas- 

 sachusetts) issue their Catalogue No. 29 of outfits for making 

 Rubber Stamps, including their patented Vulcanizers, a new 

 type of which is herein illustrated for the first time. [6"X9". 

 12 pages.] 



ALSO RECEIVED. 



Mulconruv Co., Inc., Nos. 1213-1215 Market street, Philadelphia. 

 = Piston Packings. 16 pp. 



Jones Combination Rubber Heel Co., No. 39 Vesey street, New York. 

 =Jones's Combination Heels. 8 pp. 



