October 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Some Rubber Planting Notes. 



THE RUBBER PLANTATIOKS INVESTMENT THITST. DIRECTOH LYME ON TOVB. 



Till', rtpiirt of the aliovf company for the year ciuliiig March W'itli a view to investigating local conditions. R. X. Lyne. the 



31, presented to the third meeting of shareholders, has newly appointed Ceylon Director of Agriculture, and C. Drieberg, 



various features of interest. With a capital of £1,000,000, Secretary of the .Agricultural Society, recently completed a 



of which £525,000 is paid up, profits for the year 1911-1912 week's tour through the Northwest and north of the island, in 



amounted to £76,575, equalling about IS per cent. course of wliich they visited Jaela, Xegombo, Marawila. Chilaw, 



It would seem that these profits, out of which a dividend of Puttalatn, Anuradhapura, Jaffna and Vavuniya. From .Jaffna 



10 per cent, was paid, were derived from two sources: Invest- a complete circuit of the Peninsula was made and a visit paid to 



nients of about £740,000 in 31 companies; and of about £200,000 Karativu Kayts Islands. 



in three properties in Suinatra and one in South Travencore. In the course of the tour the new director had the opportunity 



In the aggregate these four properties represented 54,324 acres, of meeting the revenue officers of the different provinces and dis- 



of which 10,521 acres are planted. In this way the principle of tricts visited, while in Jaffna a conference was held with the 



distributing risks is carried out to the fullest extent. officials and others interested in agriculture. 



From a geographical standpoint, the investments in various 



companies are distributed as follows : ««• wickhams improved smoking apparatus. 



p ,- Much interest has been displayed in Ceylon, as to the intro- 



East Coast Sumatra %4 '" ' d^-^^'o" °^ «• ^- Wickham's "Mocha" smoking apparatus, >n- 



r ^ ,7 tended to produce the equivalent of fine hard Para by means 01 



Malay Peninsula . . . . . . ' . . . . . ' . . . . . '. . . . ' . " . . ' 16^ ^^^ "smoke cure." This apparatus is made by David Bridge & 



c !,' 1 1- 10,/ Co., whose agents, the Colombo Commercial Co., were. accord- 

 Southern India i2J4 ' s > , ,. , . . . 



P I jQ,/ mg to latest accounts, overhaulmg the apparatus just arrived 



with a view to a deinonstration to be shortly held at their works. 



,QQ It is of interest to note that a preliminary demonstration of 



the invention, with the small working model B, which has been 



The distribution among various crops is shown as follows: several months on the island, was recently held at Peradeniya 



Per Cent. Gardens. This demonstration took place under the personal su- 



Rubber (including coffee interplanted in rubber) 63 pervision of Mr. Wickham, in presence of Mr. Lyne, the recently 



I'ga 24 appomted director, and the officials of the Gardens. The model 



Tobacco and other products 13 worked very satisfactorily; it being anticipated that as soon as 



the machines arc placed on the local market, they will become 



100 popular. 



•D .1 I ■ . r .1 .■ 1 1 .1 tl,„ NEW TAPPING KNIFE, 



By tile historv ot the properties owned by the coniiianv, the . „ . ,, ,,,■ ,, , , 



, , ,• . . „ , • -,, „,".,„f„j During his stav in Cevlon, .Mr. Wickham has also e.xperi- 



course of rubber prices is indicated. Of the 10,:>-1 acres planted. ° , . - ,; , . , ., j - j i.- 



.,._ . ^ J ;no ■ a ,1 K 1 „f 1 -27^ .-r o K<.;„„ mented with his now well-known tapping knife and lound this 



5,647 are in tea and 3OO in coffee ; the balance 01 4,374 acres being . . , ^ 



, , 1 . , f 11 likewise answered to expectations in every respect, except that 



in rubber, planted as follows : , . , , , , , , , , , • ^ u 



. possibly with older trees and hardened bark the spring ol the 



,gf,o . 145 knife would be more useful if it were of a stronger make. It 



.g^ ,Qg appears that part of the essential working is that there should be 



.Q, „ 5341/ 3 rapid withdrawal after the incision, and that the speed of the 



.Q, . ] 9371/ withdrawal will depend 011 the strength of the spring. 



,Q.^ '2Q7 It is an encouragement for younger rubber experts to see the 



, '/",'"'■ 101 "Father of the Rubber Industrv" thus at work, introducing his 



In course of planting lol . . . t^ , , . • , i 



c. ,. , r ,nn 1 ATI two latest inventions. Both the inventions are the outcome 01 



Sanctioned for 1912 1,6/3 . , • n j 1 ■ . 



half-a-century of experience, and unrivalled early acquaintance 



ry . 4 374 ^^''*h ^^^ practices of the rubber-gatherers in the home par ex- 

 cellence of Hcvea rubber, Brazil. 

 The large amount of planting in 1911 was a natural sequence 



of the boom of 1910. and it is of interest to note that an even Sumatra companies. 



larger amount has been sanctioned for this year. Figures ot the United Serdang Rubber Plantations. Limited, 



In dealing with these figures, Mr. E. L. Killick, in the for August show 61,511 pounds, as compared with 21.688 for the 



"Financier" of London, criticizes the large proportion allotted same month last year. During the financial year ended .August 31 



to Sumatra and Java. He remarks that the Ceylon companies the total yield has been 532.360 pounds, as compared with 218.530 



have an unsurpassed record while it is scarcely conceivable that pounds for the preceding annual period. 



the profits earned by rubber estates in Malaya will ever be In the yield of the Salang Rubber Estates, Limited, there has 



approached elsewhere. likewise been a considerable increase, the quantity for August 



having been 14,966 pounds, as against 4.898 pounds in August, 



RIVERSIDE (SELANGOR) RUBBER CO.. LIMITED. ,„,, 



The yield for the 8 months ended .August 31, 1912 was 101,854 -j-j^g Tandjong Rubber Co., whose holdings have just become 



pounds; as compared with 29,466 pounds for the corresponding productive, starts off with crops of 9,899 pounds in July and 



months of 1911, 11,828 pounds in .August. 



SCOTTISH MALAY RUBBER CO., LIMITED. VAXLAMBROSA RUBBER CO,. LIMITED. 



During the eight months ended August 31, the total yield was For the five months ending .August 31, the yield of above com- 



101.733 pounds, as compared with 45,495 pounds for the corre- pany has represented a total of 202.000 pounds, as compared with 



sponding months of 1911. 160,700 pounds for the corresponding period of 1911. 



