September i, ipcg.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



419 



Rubber Planting in Dutch (juiana. 



THE fact tliat tlie govcrniiR-iu ul Diitcli Guiana, in South uiily a nomnial cost to llic planter, from which it would seem 



America, is now planting 500 acres of Hcicii rul)ber draws that Hevca rubber cannot only be grown as well in Dutch 



attention to the possibilities of that country for the same Guiana, but as cheaply as in the Far East. There is but one 



sort of development that has taken place in the Far East. There point that remains unsettled, when one considers all of the fac- 



are at present in that colony many going plantations that are tors that go to make up a successful Hevca plantation in the 



producing cacao and sugar, where the land has been dyked and country under consideration, and that is rainfall. In Surinam, 



drained, and upon which there are now- substantial plantation according to Dutch government reports, it averages about 90 



buildings The partial failure of the cacao crop, and the far inches, well distributed through the twelve months. This ccr- 



grcater profit in rubber, has turned the attention of the planters tainly is not excessive, but is it enough ? 



to the latter. The movement seems to be in favor of a joint The table which follows gives the details of the experimental 



plantirtg of bananas and rubber, there being a good market for tapping of 10 ten-year-old Hcvca trees on the Waterland planta- 



bananas from that region, now that the United Fruit Co. have tion, in Dutch Guiana : 



established a regular weekly service between Paramaribo and KxpERtMENTAL Rubber T.mtixc; i.v Ditih Gi iana. 



New York. That the Ilci-ca BrasUicnsis will do well is proved Times Dry 



by a number of experimental plantings that already exist. These /^'^^^j hcrHnR'bone '^7^6^- ..Xl?: !s3Tr. .T437 'gr. 



plantations are about a dozen in number. The oldest, contain- No. 2 <io us lmi gr. 253 gr- 1.394 gr. 



,, .1 ■ , 1 1 1 1 No. 3 do 104 624 gr- 253 gr- 877 gr. 



mg some 300 trees ten years old, recently yielded about .? pounds jjo, ^ do n.! 1.160 gr. 253 gr. 1.413 gr. 



per tree. The most ambitious rubber plantation is the youngest ^o. s---------- half s^piral loii 586 gr. 253 |r- ^839 gr- 



and contains 14.000 Iln'Ca trees from i to 1Y2 years old. No. 7 do 45 624 gr. 253 gr- 877 gr. 



,,.-^, . , , ^ c 1 r - ,. . .■ 1 No. S ilo 107 1.14s gr- 253 gr. 1,398 gr. 



With a stable government, freedom ironi unjust taxation, and p;,, g spiral 56 S77 gr- 253 gr. 830 gr. 



a climate and soil fitted for such cultivation it would seem likely No. 10 V shaped 70 5oi gr. ^53 gr - 75t b*"- 



that there would be considerable done in rubber in the next five Tptal production 8,321 gr. 2,530 gr. 10.851 gr. 



vcars. Added to all this is the assistance of the government Note.-Ii is evident the weights given for scrap are arrived at by taking 



; . . . . " tlic whole vield of this grade as one mass and dividing it by the num- 



in providing British coolie labor under the indenture system, at ber of trees tapped. 



Rir.lCKK Pl.AXTIXG IN DUTCH GlJIANA. 

 [Three-year-old Hevea Brasilietisis.l 



Rubber Planting in Dltch Guiana 

 [Six-year-o!d Hetca Brasiliensis.] 



