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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1913. 



Some Rubber Planting Notes. 



HON. E. ROSLING LEAVES CEYLON. ENGLISH VIEW OF THE njTURE OF HUBBER. 



THE departure of tlu- lion. IC. Kosling from Ceylon was the .At the annual meeting .if the Rul.ber Growers' Association Mr. 



occasion of a farewell demonstration quite unusual. Noel Trotter, acting chairman, said: 



Mr. Rosling was the head of the Dimliula Planting As- "So long as the world's demand for rubber progresses in the 



sociation from 1897 to 1899, and of the Ceylon Planters' Asso- way it has done in recent years, there can be little doubt that a 



ciation from 1900 to 1901, and from 1909 to 1910. He was one of very large further increase in supplies will be necessary to satisfy 



the most prominent men in the Ceylon planting community and the growing requirements. For instance, we, in London, have be- 



his departure has caused much regret. Satisfaction is expressed fore our eyes the enormous growth of the omnibus traffic, since 



at the prospect of his continuing in England to further the in- horse-drawn conveyances were superseded by rubber-tired motor- 



terests of Ceylon. buses. It is reported that shortly the exi.sting public carrier vans 



Before leaving Ceylon for Europe he gave expression to his will be scrapped and replaced by motor vans extending their 



views as to cost of producing rubl)cr. He said : sphere of direct delivery, and competing with the railways. The 



"As regards the cost of production in rubber, with up-to-date efTect on our country roads will be appalling, but it all means 



cultivation, trees growing older and a liberal period allowed for more rubber." 



the renewal of the liark. 1 believe that Ceylon will produce its j^^^ rubber production. 



rubber cheaper than any Other country. _ ^ i ,, c ^ f .i ion tiot,,-7 



..,,,, , . . . . , . , , , ^ ., .,, Exports oi rubber from Java for the year 1912 were 2,233,117 



1 should say that it is quite within the bounds of possibility , ^ noTnrin j • ir,i, '» j- 



.,..,,, ^ , , , , • ,, pounds, against 982,000 pounds in 1911. According to the report 



that in the future the superintendent who cannot put his rubber %,„.., . , r t . ■ • ■ ■ ,. 



r , r o 1 11 1 . I 1 • , ,. of the British acting consul for Java, this quantity was principally 



J. o. b. tor 8d. will be looked upon as a verv expensive worker. , r r-- , n ^, ■ ■ r\- ■ , 



composed of ricus and Hevea, very small quantities of Ceara and 



RESULTS OF RUBBER TAPPING IN CEYLON. Ciistilloii liaving been produced. 



At a recent meeting of the Committee of Agricultural Experi- rubber in Sumatra 



ments, held at Peradeniva, Ceylon, it was decided to keep records « ,■ ^ ■ ■ i i i i i i_ 



, ■ , , , 1 , . , • According to a British consular report, the area under rubber 



as to how many trees could be tapped per day in each experiment. ^, ^ ^ c c , ^ .i i j- ,on ■_ iAorw> 



„, , . ,, r. XT T . - 1 ■ . on the east coast ot Sumatra at the end of 1912 was about 208.000 



The chairman, Mr. K. N. Lyne, quoted hgures showing the ,■ j j r n r> v i • oa ru^ t^ i 



, .,,,., ,, , , . , acres, divided as follows; British companies, 84,000; Dutch com- 



large average yield ot the trees at Heneratgoda on the outside ^n^r^ tt • j c-. ^ • -1-7^^1 n 1 ■ j 



, , , ,, , . , . ,. . , , ,- . , names, 69,500; United States companies. 27,500; Belgian and 



of the three small plantations there, indicating the benehcial . . o^ririrv .. ^ 1 tn^nr<r< r^ ■ ^- . j ^u . 



„ , ,. , , TT . ■. ■ 1 J- . • , other companies, 27,000; total 208,000 acres. It is estimated that 



effects of hght and room. He exhibited diagrams showing how , aa r, ■.■ , ■ 1 ■ .. . -^i- 



,,,,., , . , ... , , there were 44 British companies workina on the east coast, with 



plantations could be laid out reproducing the conditions of these , . , . , ,. ^_. rnnnru^ t- ^ r ,u 



^ t- s ^ ^Qj^j issued capital equaling $26,500,000. Exports of rubber 



from the east coast of Sumatra were, in 1910, 539 tons; 1911, 813 



AMERICAN trade EMISSARY IN CEYLON AND INDIA. tons; 1912 (estimated), 1,800 tons. 



Mr. Henry D. Baker, American consul at Nassau, is spending The report adds that the plantation rubber produced has, on 



some eight months in India and Ceylon, w^ith a view to investi- the whole, shown careful preparation, while the prices realized 



gating the opportunities for extending American trade with the have-been good. It is thought that when the large areas planted 



East. Rubber forms part of his program. His reports will in are in full bearing the cost of production will be comparatively 



due time be published by the United States Department of low. 



Commerce and Labor. Mr. Baker was formerly American consul rubber exports of Portuguese east africa. 



at Hobart, Tasmania, and spent five years in collecting infor- According to the report of Consul G. A. Chamberlain, 



mation in Australia and New Zealand. Lourengo Marquez, the rubber exports of that province for 1912 



rubber chemist for CEYLON. represented the following values from the various ports : 



Mr. L. E. Campbell has entered upon his duties as assistant . ,, <^o ^tn 



, . , r^ , -n uu -D u r- ■.. LoureHQo Marquez $9,369 



chemist to the Ceylon Rubber Research Committee. , , , oovor 



, ... , , ■,,,-,• n ■ 1 Inhambane ^Z,/o3 



The new expert s work, it is understood, will lie chiefly in the ^i j o <;ai 



. , , , , , . ,• , ■ r ,= Chinde 2,661 



studv of rubber trees and their diseases; and a committee of hve „ ,. <; <:q7 



, , . . . , , , , , , Quelimane 6,68/ 



planters will assist him. Local opinion is that much good should at i ■ 4i on-3 



' , ^ , . r .1 1 ■ . r .u LI Mozambique 41.903 



result from this new appointment, for the chemistry ot the rubber _ . -r -,,7 



„ - , , Beira 35,317 



industry calls for every care and research. 



presidency or ceyxon association. Total $138,722 



Mr. Loudoun Shand has been re-elected president of the Cey- , , , . . i .1 . ■.! »i ^ • • ,. n t- 



, , It has been estimated that, with the extensive installation 01 



Ion Association, London, for another vear. , . , » ^ r ^t ■ u j con 



luu .-i=s ji.i,tii , . machinery, the output of the province would exceed 500 tons 



the all-ceylon exhibition. ;mnually. 



Last year's All-Ceylon Exhibition has realized a surplus equal- Vine bark produces 4.97 per cent, of rubber, bone dry and free 



ing nearly $2,000, which it is proposed to hold in anticipation of from refill ; root bark producing 6.97 per cent. 



the next exhibition, scheduled for 1917. proposed rubber reforms in Portuguese colonies. 



CETLON (PARA) RUBBER COMPANY. LIMITED. A measure which is under consideration by the Portuguese 



At the recent London annual meeting of the Ceylon (Para) legislature provides for immunity from export tax, during 



Rubber Co., Limited, Mr. R. B. Magor, the chairman, ex- twenty-five years, of rubber extracted from the Ficus elastica. 



pressed the conviction that in the course of a few years the Similar immunity would extend during fifteen years to Hevea 



cost of delivery in London will not exceed Is. per pound. and Castilloa rubber, and during ten years to Manihot and other 



By that time, he remarked, the whole of the company's area will varieties. Articles needed for the cultivation and tapping of 



be in full bearing. This company was registered in 1904 and by rubber trees, and for the preparation of latex, it is proposed to 



1910 had its land nearly all planted with rubber, admit free of duty. 



