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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Septemhkr I. 1909. 



CEASA RUBBER IN CEYLON. 

 It seems to be the general belief that all the C'e.ira rubber 

 {Mtiiiilwt) planting in the East were failures, and that none of it 

 now remains, having been supplanted by Ileiwi. 1 hat is not the 

 case exactly. Much of the early planting of the Ceara was a 

 disappointment, and many of the planters cut down their trees 

 and went in for Hcvea because of its surer and greater pro- 

 ductiveness. That there are mature Ceara trees that are regular 

 and profitable producers is the fact. The illustrations shown 

 herewith make this plain. The tree shown in one is on the 

 Warringalla estate, Ceylon, while in the other is shown the 

 process of making biscuits on the Pallekelle estate, Ceylon. 

 From the last named estate there have been shipped as much as 

 4,000 pounds of dry rubber in one year. 



MEXICAN MUTUAL PLANTERS' CO. 



At the eleventh annual meeting of sliareholders (Chicago, 

 June 9) the death was announced of Mr. George C. Sanborn, 

 one of the foimders of the company, and its president trom the 

 beginning. | See The Inui.\ Rubber Worlii, Aug. i, 1909— 

 page 403.] The directors were re-elected, with the addition of 

 J. W. Stapleton, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Mr. Sanborn. Frank B. Stone, a wholesale hardwood lumber 

 merchant, of Chicago, a director from the beginning, and lat- 

 terly vice-president, was elected president. The other officers 

 elected were: Edward H. Stearn, vice-president: C. B. Wood- 

 ruff, secretary, and Joseph Cummins, treasurer. It was the 

 sense of the meeting that a committee of the directors should 

 pay an early visit to the company's rubber plantation, "La 

 Junta," in Vera Cruz. Mexico, and make a report on the same 

 to the investors. 



MUTUAL RUBBER PRODUCTION CO. NO. 1. 



Bulletin No. 31, issued to the investors in this company from 

 the main offices in Boston, contains in full the report of the 

 fifth annual inspector. Elbert C, Kinney. He visited the planta- 

 tions in Mexico in February last, and recorded in detad the 

 extent of the develcpment work, together with the growth of 

 the planted trees of different ages. Photographs are given of 

 the growing trees and the of the principal buildings on the 

 estate, which are near Frontera. in the state of Tabasco. He 

 states that he saw 315 seven-year-old trees tapped for the first 

 time, yielding at one tapping an average of iJ4 ounces of 

 washed sheet rubber; 195 other trees were then tapped with 

 more care, yielding 2 ounces on an average. It is believed that 

 the trees wi'.l stand being tapped three times a year. T he 

 company has nearly 4,000 acres under Castillcii rubber. 



RUBBER CONTRACT SALES. 



The Selensing Rubber Co.. Limited, in February contracted 

 for the sale of their 1909 output of fine rubber. Colomlx) deliv- 

 ery, at 3.70 rupees |=$i.20. gold] per pound, estimated to reach 

 20,000 pounds. In June tlieir 1910 output, estimated at 30.000 

 pounds, was sold on tlie same terms. 



Beverlac ( Selangor ) Rubber Co., Limited, are reported to 

 have sold their best grades of rubber for delivery between 

 February 1, 1910, and January 31, 191 1, at 3.80 rupees [^$1.34.39] 

 per pound. 



The. Times of Muiaya (June 8) reports:: ".A large rubber 

 estate in Klang has foresold the whole of its crop for the next 

 three years at 5.J. lirf. [=$1.43.9] per pound." 



AN ITEM FROM "DARKEST AFRICA. ' 



A FORESTRY officer in the Eastern province of Northern Nigeria 

 (British West Africa) .says in an official report that the pro- 

 gressive Opobo chiefs, in particular, have purchased thousands 

 of Hez'ea ruliber pkints, specially nursed in boxes, to stock their 

 plantations. 



DISTANCE OF PLANTING RUBBER. 



The Bv.kit Rajah Rubber Co., Limited, who have 2,340 acres 

 under rubber planted at various distances, and who produced 

 last year 210,081 pounds of rubber, report that the best results 

 have been gained from trees a distance of 27 x 2y feet, and 

 they are now thinning out some of the rubber more closely 

 planted. In the crowded fields the bark does not renew so 

 thickly or the trees yield so much latex as in the widely planted 

 fields. On their Sundei Binjai fields, with the wide planting, the 

 trees yielded 4 pounds each, or 300 pounds to the acre. 



Ce..\r.\ Rubber in Cevlon. 



[.Making biscuits on Pallekelle estate, Dumbara district.] 



Ce.\r.\ Rubber in Ceylon. 



[Twenty-year-old MaiiHwt tree on Warriapolla estate. South Matale.] 



