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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1913. 



Some Rubber Planting Notes. 



FEDERATED MAT.AY STATES— RUBBER OUTPUT. 



ACCORDING to information cabled by the Federated Malay 

 States Government, to the Malay States Information 

 Agency, the exports of plantation rubber from the Fed- 

 erated Malay States for the month of October amounted to 

 4,838,400 lbs. as compared with 4,480,000 lbs. in September, mak- 

 ing the total for the ten months of the present year 42,078,689 lbs. 

 as compared with 27,917,013 lbs. for the corresponding period 

 last year. 

 Appended are the comparative statistics for 1911 and 1912; 



1911 



January 1,329,170 



February 1,490,849 



March 1,916,219 



April 1,235,917 



May 1,147,488 



June 1,229,754 



July 1,581,993 



August 1,651,845 



September 1,677,062 



October 2,182,857 



1912 

 2,730,576 

 2,715,767 

 3,089,583 

 2,285,390 

 2,255,034 

 2.305,915 

 2,695,861 

 3,655,535 

 2,968,121 

 3,215,231 



1913 

 4,772.880 

 3,936,529 

 3,890,880 

 3,642,240 

 2,744,000 

 4,491,200 

 3,989,440 

 5,293,120 

 4,480,000 

 4,838,400 



Total 15,443,154 27,917,013 42.078.689 



RUBBER EXPORTS FROM THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



Shipments of cultivated rubber from the Federated Malay 

 States for the first eight months of 1913 amounted to $14,627.74, 

 a gain of $6,557.15 over shipm.ents for the first eight months of 

 1912. The following comparative table shows the destination of 

 the-se shioments : 



1912. 1913. 



To — Tons. Tons. 



Straits Settlements 3,284.50 6,395.11 



United Kingdom 3,981.25 6,905.07 



Continent of Europe 574.34 920.81 



Ceylon 220.42 406.75 



Other countries 10.08 



Total 8,070.59 14,627.74 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES RUBBER CO. 



Notwithstanding its English title, the financial organization of 

 this company is Belgian, its headquarters being at Antwerp. At 

 the time of its establishment in 1905, its object was the planting 

 of coffee in the Malay peninsula, but later on the high prices of 

 rubber and the boom in that article induced the directors to 

 abandon the former cultivation and to replace it by that of the 

 latter. 



Its capital equals $820,000. Its dividends have been: 1906, 

 8 per cent.; 1908, 9.24 per cent.; 1911, 2.90 per cent. The yields 

 were: 1906-7, 32,000 pounds, and 1911-12, 721,000 pounds, while 

 the estimate for 1912-13 exceeds 1,000,000 pounds, this develop- 

 ment being attributed to the importations through Belgium for 

 account of French consumers. 



UMBRELLAS FOR RUBBER TREES. 



The efforts of inventors to discover new uses for rubber are 

 eclipsed by the innovations offered to its producers. Among 

 patent specifications recorded in the "Ceylon Observer" of 

 recent date, may be mentioned an umbrella shaped shield, affixed 

 to the trunk of a tree at a convenient height, in such a manner 

 as to shed water that might flow down the stem and interfere 

 with the tapping operation, combined with a curtain to complete 



the protection. Another inventor proposes to deprive the air 

 circulated in rubber drying chambers of its moisture, by causing 

 it to pass through a spray of chloride of calcium or other suit- 

 able hydroscopic solution, so that the air will enter the drying 

 chamber as free as possible from moisture. 



CEYLON'S PROPOSED EXPORT TAX ON RUBBER. 



A resolution has been proposed in the Ceylon Government 

 Council lo establish an export tax on rubber of 0.75 rupee (24 

 cents) per 100 pounds. This proposed duty has met with local 

 opposition, rubber merchants claiming that if in addition to the 

 export duty paid on most of the rubber shipped into Ceylon from 

 the Federated Malay States, India, etc., an extra charge of 24 

 cents per 100 pounds should be imposed upon rubber reshipped 

 from the island, it will be very likely to go elsewhere. It is also 

 stated that the enforcement of this tax would impose a hardship 

 on the rubber exporters, who have already contracted for 1914 

 future sales without having taken into consideration any added 

 export duties. 



CASTILLOA PRODUCTION IN JAVA, 



Among the papers to be read at the 1914 Rubber Congress at 

 Batavia, is one contributed by the Central Java Testing Station 

 at Salatiga, on the cultivation of the CastUloa tree in Java. 



COMPAGNIE DU KASAI GIVING UP RUBBER 1 



A report in the Belgian press states that the above company is 

 giving up the rubber business to devote its attention to mining 

 and agriculture. Its surplus is said to have at one time equaled 

 $2,600,000. 



NEW RUBBER SECTIONS AT AMSTERDAM DOCKS. 



Two new sections are being constructed at the Amsterdam 

 Docks for the accommodation of the rubber trade, at a cost 

 equaling $18,000. It is in contemplation in this way to increase 

 the facilities for inspecting rubber at the above-named port. 



BUDGET OF NETHERLANDS INDIA. 



A legislative measure is before the Dutch Second Chamber 

 which devotes a sum equalling $360,000 to the reorganization of 

 the official staff at the principal points in the Dutch Indies. The 

 realization of the project is expected to take four years. 



NEW SCALE OF CONGO RUBBER EXPORT DUTIES. 



The following new scale of export duties on rubber has been 

 published in the "Official Journal of the Belgian Congo" (denom- 

 inations converted into American equivalents) : 

 From grasses — 



Not exceeding 27 cents per pound Free 



Over 27 cents per pound 254 cents per pound 



Free or vine rubbers — 



Not exceeding 45 cents per pound 254 cents per pound 



45 to 63c. per pound 254 cents per pound 



63 to 72c. per pound 454 cents per pound 



72 to $1.08 per pound. . . .9 cents per pound 



Over $1.08 per pound 11 $4 cents per pound 



Plantation rubber Free 



These rates (which are to be revised quarterly) are intended 

 to place the Congo export duties in harmony with the present 

 selling prices of rubber. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients ; Rubber Country of the Amazon ; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



