October 1, 1913. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



43 



Some Rubber Planting Notes. 



HEDUCING THE PRODUCTION OF PLANTATION RUBBER. A COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE FOR CEYLON. 



WITH reference to the proposal for meeting present condi- According to an address delivered recently by tlie Director of 



tions by a reduced production of plantation rubber, the .'\griculture of Ceylon, the movement in favor of the establish- 



"Financier," of London, makes the fodowing suggestion ; ment on that island of a College of Tropical Agriculture, is 



"It is admitted that the situation now prevailing in the com- making favorable progress. Designs have been prepared for 



modity is abnormal — that it has been brought about by other the three main buildings which will generally resemble those 



than natural means. Surely, then, what is termed artificial of the agricultural college at Cornell University, Ithaca, New 



assistance is justifiable as a remedy. The only way to cir- York, and a site selected on high ground on the bank of the 



cumvent a bear raid in plantation rubber is to cut short the Mahaweli Gango, Ceylon's largest river, opposite the Royal 



supply, and thus inaugurate a bull movement. This could Hotanic Gardens at Peradeniya. 



easily be done by agreement amongst the larger producing According to present plans, the main buildings, which arc to 



companies to cease tapping. A fortnight of non-production cost about $200,000, will include laboratories, a central auditorium, 



would be quite sufficient. The sentimental effect of the dcci- library and museum, and dormitories for resident students, 



sion would be far greater than the influence of the reduced The chief subjects to be taught will be agriculture, chemistry, 



output. The bears would certainly be caught, and the price soil bacteriology, botany, mycology, zoology, entomology, horti- 



of plantation rubber might conceivably revert to its normal culture, irrigation, veterinary science, physics, land-surveying, 



level." meclianics, meteorology and bookkeeping. Work on the planta- 



Referring to the question of reducing plantation production, tions outside will be a special feature of the course, which is ex- 



the "Frankfurter Zeitung," a leading German daily, remarks pected to take a year for men with degrees in agriculture desiring 



that many' plantation owners are said to be in a precarious to specialize in tropical agriculture, and at least two years for 



situation, the formation of companies having taken place for less advanced students. It is also proposed to receive non- 



the greatest part when the prices of rubber had reached an resident students, 

 exceptional height. The prospects of these undertakings were 



estimated on a considerably higher level of prices than at rubber profits secouping losses on tea. 



present exists. The Doranakande Rubber Estates. Ceylon, report that 



SOCIETE ANONYME DES PLANTATIONS DE TELOK-DALAM (FEDERATED *']*= "''^°'<= °^ ^^"' ^''"^ »■"<= '" ''earing, the OUtput (of aboUt 



MALAY STATES). 55,000 pounds) having been produced at a cost f. o. b. 



An increase in the number of trees is recorded, from 29,694 L""'o">''« "f >"s than Is. per pound, or exclusive of manuring, 



in January, 1912, to 60,688 at the end of that year. During the ""'l" ^Md. In view of the tea crop havmg been sold at a 



twelve months the vield was 90,986 pounds, the estimate havmg 1°^^, the company proroses to do away with that branch of 



thus been exceeded' by about 30,000 pounds. The output antici- '" P^''-''U"'on, ccofi^-ng itsell to rubber, 



pated for 1913 is 176,000 pounds. This is a Belgian company, jHj. rubber production of burma. 

 with headquarters in Antwerp. 



The growing importance of Burma in rubber cultivation is 



SUNGEI KAPAR LOWERS COSTS. indicated bv reccut statistics from Consul Maxwell T. Moor- 



The Sunge, Kapar Rubber Co., Lmi.ted (Federated Malay ^^^^^ „f Rangoon. Total exports to all countries except India 



Staves), has lowered the cost of puttmg its product on the represemed in 1911 $188,731, and in 1912 $493,095. The United 



market from Is. 2.40 d. tor 1911 to Is. O.Sld. tor 1912. Output 5^^^^^, 3,,^^^ ^.^^ however, trifling, having been in 1911 m'/, and 



increased f^om 338,480 pounds m the earher to 466.271 pounds -^ J9J2 5399 Estimates of the area under rubber are: 1911, 20,- 



in the later year. jqq ^^^^^^ ^^j jpj, 32 772 ^^^^^^ 3 prospective increase of yield 



SIALANG RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED. being thus indicated. 



According to a report issued by Harrisons & Crost'ield, Limited, Imports of Burma in rubber goods, apart from clothing, were: 



London, the crop of rubber harvested on the above company's jg,. jgi7 



estates for six months ended July 31, 1913, was approximately ^ . .,,„„,, .,.^, ,„_ 



n,;mT , c ,-, . .,' j\ t,u \. f \ \ Total $40,845 $63,607 



126,092 pounds, of which, up to the date of the report (August 



19) 65.041 pounds had been sold at a gross average of 3.$. 6.85rf. ■,,,,,,■. r. , ,~-, , ^1^ 



, ^ ^ Includ- (United States 4.1/2 1.973 



per pound. . mt ■. j ,.-• j ,<r --v^ 



ing (United Kingdom 46.520 



ANGLO-MALAY RUBBER CO., LIMITED. 



The crop of rubber harvested on the above company's estates rubber growing in Malabar. 



for seven months ended Tulv 31, 1913, according to a report sent . , r ..^ • , ,1 ^ ^ , • • 



, TT • o ^ ,- 1 1 I • ■ 1 1 . -7T1 TIT A correspondent of Capital, of Calcutta, mvites attention 



out by Harrisons & Crosheld. Limited, amounted to 723,232 , . . ' , , , . , . „ , 



, . , .„„ ,__ , , , , , to the growing importance of the rubber industrv in Southern 



oounds, of which 388.3/9 pounds have been sold at an average , i- . 1 - 1 1 -^r r^n 'r , , j 



,..,-, , India, there being no less than 35,000 acres of land under 



gross price of 2s. 3.6o(/. per pound. , , • .1 ,, 1 1 j- ^ • ^ 1 a 



rubber m the Malabar district alone. An enterprising grower 



rubber SHIPMENTS FROM STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. is said to be arranging with a native landowner for the purchjice 



A cablegram to the Malay States Information Agency, Lon- of a whole hill in South Malabar, containing several thousanv 



don, from the Colonial secretary, Singapore, gives the exports acres, to be mainly devoted to ru'obcr. The writer claims that 



of rubber from Straits Settlements ports during the month of Malabar rubber equals that of Ceylon in quality and yield, 



August, as 2,946.400 pounds, compared with 2,509.333 pounds in while the prices obtained compare favorably with those of any 



July and 1,828,133 pounds in June. These figures include other rubber in the market. 



transshipments from adjacent places, such as Borneo, Java 



c- i J xu TvT IT 1 ^ J If 1 Ci i II uu rubber from BRITISH HONDURAS. 



Sumatra and the Non-f'ederated Malay States, as well as rubber 



actually furnished for e.xport by the colony, but does not in- Exports of rubber to the United States from British Honduras 



elude rubber shipments from the Federal Malay States. were as follows: 1911, $16,382; 1912. $18,735. 



