December 1. 1913.1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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those who are its temporary inmates. Nor does their interest 

 stop here. Everything is done to keep the laborers contented 



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and happy, even to the extent of supplying them with instructive 

 and diverting amusements which they appreciate thoroughly. 



One of the photographs reproduced here by way of illustrat- 

 ing the work of this plantation shows the coolies in the act 

 of extracting a root of one of the jungle trees. This plantatioti. 

 notwithstanding its size, is one of the cleanest and best kept in 

 the East, the managers believing that the initial expense of 

 pulling out stumps and roots, tho large, is warranted by the 

 ultimate result. No serious pests and diseases have appeared, 

 but the disease most dreaded, Fomes seinitostus, usually finds 

 Its habitat on dead stumps and roots, and it is to obviate the 

 possibility of losses from this fungus that the stumps and roots 

 of old jungle trees are being removed. The trees have been 

 planted 121 to the acre, with the view of bringing 100 trees into 

 bearing, but so free have the plantations been of disease that 

 the management expects to bring practically 100 per cent, of 

 the trees into bearing. Mr. Davis contends that it is perfectly 

 possible, through proper management, to avoid practically all 



these fungoid diseases. 



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acre. The Holland-American people expect easily to live up 

 to this average and anticipate inside of the next few years 

 an annual product from the 34,000 acres now planted of 10,000,000 

 pounds. There is this additional feature to be mentioned, that this 

 vast amount of rubber, being made entirely under one manage- 

 ment, will be uniform in quality, a condition the absence of which 

 has hitherto greatly militated against the manufacturers' apprecia- 

 tion of plantation rubber. But, even with its great supplies, it is 

 obvious that the company will have no rubber to sell, so it will 

 be in no way a competitor of the other planting enterprises; 

 while, on the other hand, the operations of this American planta- 

 tion, conducted as they are on a scale never before attempted or 

 iven dreamed of, will be watched with the keenest interest by 

 rvery planter, big and small, in the entire East— and they can- 

 not fail to prove of the greatest value, in the lessons they will 

 leach, to the whole rubber planting world. It is the purpose of 

 the directors of the General Rubber Co. to co-operate fully 

 with the planters in the East to the end that the industry may 

 I)e put on a still sounder and more secure basis. 



Constructing a Ro.ad on the Est.vte. 



A little north of this tract there are a number of flourishing 

 English and Dutch plantations ranging in age from one to 

 seven years, many of them producing 300 pounds or more to the 



FOBEIGN REGISTRATION OF AMERICAN TRADE-MARKS AND PATENTS. 



Vice-Consul General Clarence E. Gauss, stationed at Shanghai, 

 China, in a report published on October 30, calls attention to the 

 need for registration by American manufacturers of their trade- 

 marks and patents in competing countries. He states that China 

 has no trade-mark or patent laws, altho the government has 

 undertaken to inaugurate such systems, adding that the diffi- 

 culty in the matter of infringements does not generally arise 

 among the Chinese, with whom the authorities are usually 

 prompt to deal in cases of infringement, but with certain Euro- 

 pean and Oriental manufacturers who put on the Chinese market 

 merchandise which it is claimed by representatives of American 

 manufacturers violate American trade-mark and patent rights. 

 It is difficult to deal with such cases for the reason that not in- 

 frequently the .^mcrican manufacturer has neglected to register 

 his trade-mark in the country where the spurious articles are 

 manufactured. 



FOREIGN TRADE OPPORTUNITIES. 



A foreign business firm informs the American consulate-gen- 

 eral at Singapore that it would like to get in touch with a reli- 

 able firm to represent it in the United States. The firm states 

 that it is in an exceptionally favorable position as regards the 

 rubber trade, and believes that direct buying of rubber at Singa- 

 pore will eflfect a considerable saving to American purchasers. 

 The number of the consular report containing this information 

 is 11,972. 



An .'\merican consul has received an inquiry for the names of 

 manufacturers in the United States of machinery for insulating 

 electric wire. Replies should be accompanied by description and 

 prices, all in Spanish. Report No. 11,950. 



.\ new golf course — the second to be laid out in Portugal — is 

 now being built by the government of that country, at Belem, 

 near Lisbon, and will be opened this year. The fact that none 

 of the stores in either Lisbon or Oporto— the location of the 

 other course — carry golf supplies, and that the supplies which 

 are introduced with the opening of this new course will have an 

 advantage over those that come in later as adherents of the 

 game increase in number, suggests an opening in Portugal for 

 manufacturers of golf balls. The Bureau of Foreign and Do- 

 mestic Commerce at Washington is able to supply lists of sport- 

 ing goods dealers in both of these cities. 



NEW YORK COMltERCIAL CO. DIVIDEND. 



A dividend of 15 per cent., payable on December 1, was de- 

 clared November 19, by John J. To%vnsend, of 45 Cedar street, 

 referee in the bankruptcy proceedings of the New York Com- 

 mercial Co. Mr. Townsend at the same time said that another 

 dividend of 10 per cent, would be declared soon. 



