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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1, 1913. 



Wf^ 



A'ol. 48. 



APRIL 1, 1913. 



No. 1. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



EDITORIAL: 



The Washing of Brazilian Rubber 339 



A Tropical Agricultural University in the West Indies.. 339 



Annual Legislative Raid on the Auto 341 



Dynamite in Rubber Planting 342 



American Manufacturers Invade Brazil 342 



Rubber as Legal Tender 342 



Rubber Manufacturing in the "New York Zone" 



By G. Wilfred Pearcc, C. E. 343 



Map Showing Rubber Areas and Location of Proposed Rub- 

 ber Factories and Washing Plants in Brazil 344 



Brazil's New Rubber Activity 345 



IWitli 1 Ilhislration.] 



A Big American Rubber Factory for Rio de Janeiro 349 



Rubber Washing in Bahia 351 



IWilh 3 Illustrations.] 



Farming by Dynamite 



[With Portiait.l By Harold Hamel Smith 352 



A Brief History of Fire Hose Specifications in the United 

 States 



By E. A. Barrier 354 



Report of the Rubber Section of the American Chemical 

 Society 



By D. A. Cutler 356 



Report of the Rubber Committee of the American Society 

 for Testing Materials: Standard Specifications for Rub- 

 ber Products 



By E. B. Tilt 357 



Editor's Book Table 358 



New Trade Publications 358 



Conrad Poppenhusen, Manufacturer and Philanthropist 359 



I With 3 Illustrations.] 



Railroads Rubber Committee 



(Communication from the Secretary") 360 

 American Rubber for the Argentine Navy 360 



Protection of Intellectual Property in Relation to Chemical 



Industry 361 



Testing of German East African Rubber Soils and Products. 363 



Rubber Culture in Southern Asia 363 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Oitr Correspondent 365 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Our Correspondent 366 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Our Correspondent 367 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



Onr Correspondent 368 



The Rubber Trade in Cincinnati 



Our Correspondent 369 

 The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Our Correspondent 369 

 The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 370 

 New Rubber Goods in the Market 371 



IWith Illustrations. [ 



News of the American Rubber Trade 373 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



Obituary Record 374 



Mulconroy Coupling and Nipple 380 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Regular Correspondent 381 



Gross Lichterfelde Material Testing Bureau 383 



The Japanese Waste Rubber and Reclaimed Rubber Trades. . 



Bv Oi(r Regular Correspondent 383 



The Chinese Market for Rubber Goods 384 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



Notes from British Guiana 



By Our Regular Correspondent 385 



Seme Rubber Planting Notes 386 



Batavia Exhibition of 1914 387 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 388 



1 United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium.] 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 389 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 390 



Ant'werp. 



RUBBER STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY. 



Details. 1913. 



Stocks, Jan. 1 ti/oj 463,752 



Arrivals in February — 



Congo sorts 197,713 



Other sorts 5,818 



Plantation sorts 145,907 



Aggregating 813,190 



Sales in February 251,901 



Stocks, February 28 561,289 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 519,320 



Other sorts 18,463 



Plantation sorts 284,212 



Aggregating 821,995 787,736 



Sales since January 1.. 771,766 940,518 835,277 801,469 848,268 



Rubber Arriv.^ls from the Congo. 

 March 12. — By the steamer Leopoldz'ille: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



. (Chemins de fer Grande Lacs) 



(Belgika) 



(Alberta) 



. (Cie du Kasai) 

 . . (Forrainiere) 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Haut Congo) 



do 

 & W. 



do 

 do 



(Lomami) 



Van de Velde (Comfina) 



(Velde) 



33,500 

 800 

 2,900 

 2,900 



93,000 



3,600 



500 



950 



6,260 



20,700 

 4,760 

 1,900 

 2,000 

 4,600 

 5,000 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 



do (Comjniniere) 



Willaert Freres 



Divers 13,500 196,870 



Plantation Rubber From the Far East. 



E.xpoRT.s OF Ceylon-Grown Rubber. 



[From January 1 to February 24, 

 Chamber of Commerce.] 



1913. Compiled by 



1912. 



To Great Britain pounds 1,051,839 



To United States 653,869 



To Belgium 284,483 



the 



To Australia 



To Japan 



To Germany 



To Austria 



To Italy 



To Canada 



To Norway and Sweden. 



11,681 

 2,181 



14,096 

 2,392 



Ceylon 



1913. 



,597,373 



,084.023 



271,934 



47,839 



27,764 



16,232 



12,860 



8,108 



10.482 

 39 



Total 2.031,062 



3.066,133 



The export Figures of Rubber for 1913 given in the aljove table include 

 the imports re-exported. (These amount to 382,419 lbs. — 263,778 lbs. from 

 the Straits and 118,641 lbs. from India.) To arrive at the approximate 

 quantit>' of Ceylon rubber exported for 1913 to date deduct tlie quantity 

 of imports from the total exports. In previous years the exports of Ceylon 

 rubber only were given. 



ToT.-^L Exports from Malaya. 



(From January 1 to December 31, 1912, corrected. Reported by Barlow & 



Co., Singapore. These figures include the production of the 



Federated Malay States, but not of Ceylon.) 



To Singapore. 



Great Britain, pounds 10,620.830 



Continent 

 Japan . . . . 

 Australia 

 Cevlon . . 



365,343 



522,058 



89,139 



2,217 



United States 3,050,120 



Penang 



9,401,608 



26,663 



Port Swet- 



tenham. 



17,037,067 



2,311,717 



255,627 

 933 



903,404 

 2,081 



Total 



37,059,505 



2,703,723 



522,058 



89,139 



1,161,248 



3,053.134 



Total, 1912 14,649,707 9,684,831 



Total, 1911 6,589,425 5,254,931 



Total, 1910 3.764.877 2,454,907 



Total, 1909 2,412,617 2,088,133 



20,254,269 44,588,807 



12,109,788 23,954,144 



8,349,523 14.569,307 



2,960,320 7,461,070 



