June i, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



311 



What the Rubber 



PROFITS OF THE ANGLO-MALAY RUBBER CO. 



THE third annual report of Tlie Anglo-Malay Rubber Co., 

 Limited, contains details regarding their plantations in 

 Malaya of even greater interest than those given in these 

 pages regarding the same company lust a year ago. Last year 

 the average yield of all the trees tapped was just 3.29 pounds. 

 During the 14 months, prior to that year the average was 1.6S 

 pounds per tree. But during 1908 about 13,000 eleven year old 

 trees on the company's "Ayer Augat" estate gave an average 

 of 5 pounds of dry rubber; the trees on "Batang Kali" averaged 

 4J4 pounds, and "Linsum" 3J4 pounds. The report gives the 

 net sales result, and not the gross price obtained, working out 

 at an average for the year of 4s. 2d. [^$1,015.3]. The rubber is 

 considered to have cost is. ^d. [=32.4 cents], which would in- 

 dicate a profit of 68.9 cents per pound. The rubber crop was 

 350,688 poimds, derived from less than 800 acres, or about 440 

 pounds per acre. The company now have 3,364 acres under 

 rubber, and at the same rate of yield, when all the trees are 

 tappable, a total yield of nearly 1,500,000 pounds is indicated. 

 The tapping and curing cost per pound on their principal estate 

 was reduced from 27.02 cents (silver) in 1907 to 20.63 cents in 

 1908, the latter figure being equivalent to cents, gold. The 

 amount realized from rubber sales during the year. was i73.oiJ 

 i-s. lorf. [=$355.3i7-77]. 



COMPARATIVE RESULTS. 



The Selangor Rubber Co., Limited — Federated Malay States : 

 1906. 1907. 1008. 



Yield (pounds) "0,577 120,524 189.979 



Selling price, net 5^. i^d. 3s. ioj4rf. 4s. 4iid. 



Dividends 40% 41.6% 75% 



A small proportion of the yield has been from "rambong" 

 (Ficits), which latter will gradually be cut out, as the interpolated 

 Para trees become large enough. The Hcvca trees on 130 acres 

 are reported to have yielded about 6 pounds of rubber each dur- 

 ing 1908 on the continuous tapping system — 1. c, a cut every 

 second day throughout the twelve months. 



The Anglo-Malay Rubber Co., Limited — Federated Malay 

 States : 



1906. 1907. 1908. 



Yield (pounds) 91,703 224.778 350,688 



Selling price, net 4s. iij^a, 3^. gd. 4s. 2d. 



Dividends 18% 2o7o 30% 



Consolidated Malay Rubber Estates, Limited — Federated 

 Malay States : 



1906. 1907. 1908. 



Yield (pounds) 32.693 63,615 111.585 



Selling price, net .... .... 4s. 2%d. 



Dividends 10% 10% I7J4% 



The average yield per tree in 1908 was practically 3.4 pounds. 

 Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Co., Limited — Fed- 

 erated Malay States : 



1906. 1907. 1908. 



Yield (pounds) 134,283 193.507 222,287 



Selling price, net 5*. 2%d. 4s. ofid. 4s. 3d. 



Dividends 11% 12^% iS% 



The yield on "Highlands" estate was 2.87 pounds per tree 

 and on "Batu Unjor" 2.46 pounds. 



The Golden Hope Rubber State, Limited — Federated Malay 

 States : 



1906. 1907. 1908. 



Yield (pounds) 2,400 5.591 14.075 



Selling price, net 3f- 7'/3d. 4s. }'/id. 



Dividends 5% 6% 89i 



The tapping cost in 1908 is reported to have been less than u 

 cents (silver) per pound. 



GOOD YIELD ON PATALING ESTATES. 



At the si.xth annual meeting of shareholders of The Pataling 

 Rubber Estates Syndicate, Limited (London, March 31), thj 



Planters Are Doing. 



report for the year 1908 contained details which permit the 

 following comparative statement to be made : 



1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 



Rubber produced (pounds) 25,690 43.310 58,064 80,922 



Average net price realized 5S. 5a. 5S. 1 7/i6d. 3s 8>^d. 4s. 3Md. 



.'Vbovc equivalent to $1.31 M $1,245^ $0.89^^ $1.05 



Dividends 20% 40% 35% 4S% 



The number of trees tapped is not stated, but it is known that 

 the average yield per tree in 1905, the first year of tapping, was 

 one pound. The company now have 35,730 rubber trees, planted 

 more than six years ago, and it is to be presumed that last 

 year's production was gained from these. The cost of tapping 

 and scrapping has declined steadily, viz. : 22V3 cents (silver) per 

 pound in 1906; 1654 cents in 1907; and less than 13 cents in 

 1908. Thirteen cents in Straits money is equal to 73-4 cents in 

 United States money. The total cost of the crop f. o. b. at Port 

 Swettenham in 1908 was 24-% cents, gold. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES. 



The table which appeared in The Indi.\ Rubber World last 

 month (page 243), giving the amount of capital of companies 

 formed to plant rubber in the Dutch East Indies, was compiled 

 from the Bulletin dc I'Association dcs Plantcurs de Caoutchouc, 

 in a later issue of which the figures are modified, on account of 

 the liquidation of some of the companies and for other reasons. 

 The new figures are as follows : 



In Java: 



Dutch companies fiorins 3,426,000 



British companies 5,820,000 



Belgian and French companies 6,670,000 



German companies 904,000 



In Sumatra. Borneo and Riotne: 



Dutch companies 1,350,000 



British companies 14,254,000 



Belgian and French companies 7,850,000 



German companies 1,335,000 



Total florins 41,609,000 



[Total equivalent to $16,768,427.] 



FRIENDS OF RUBBER PLANTING. 



O.N the initiative of the Rubber Growers' Association, the head- 

 quarters of which are in London, close relations have been estab- 

 lished with the newer Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc, 

 of Antwerp. The chairman, the vice-chairman and secretary of 

 each organization have been made honorary members of the 

 other. Mr. Alexander Bethune has been elected chairman of the 

 Rubber Growers' Association, succeeding Mr. Henry Kerr 

 Rutherford, who remains a member of the executive com- 

 mittee. Mr. Bethune has long been the London correspondent 

 of the Times of Ceylon, and is a director in half a dozen com- 

 panies planting rubber in Ceylon and Malaya. 



Mr. J. B. Carruthers, some time government mycologist in 

 Ceylon and later director of agriculture and botanist in the 

 Federated Malay States, is going to Trinidad, having accepted 

 the post of assistant director in the new department of agricul- 

 ture there. This appointment is not in the nature of making Mr. 

 Carruthers a successor to Mr. John Hinchley Hart, f. l. s., who 

 resigned recently as superintendent of the Trinidad botanic gar- 

 dens, but in view of Mr. Carruthcrs's knowledge of and interest 

 in rubber culture, and the further fact that the botanic gardens 

 will be under the care of the new department, he may be de- 

 pended upon to continue the excellent work in relation to rubber 

 in the British West Indies inaugurated by Mr. Hart. 



Dr. John C. Willis, director of the Ceylon botanic gardens, has 

 taken a year's leave and is now in Europe. After consulting an 

 oculist at Wiesbaden, Dr. Willis will represent Ceylon at the 

 Darwin centenary celebrations at Cambridge in June. 



