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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1914. 



Some Rubber Planting Notes. 



COMPARISON or CEYLON SMOKING PROCESSES. j,, harmony with the prevailing low prices of ruhljcr. The pro- 



AT a recent meeting of the Committee on Agricultural Ex- pojai „:as rejected by the meeting, it being considered that with 



periments, held at Teradcniya, specimens were exhibited of lower wages it would be impossible to obtain a sufficient supply 



the products smoked respectively by the W'ickham process of East Indian laborers. 

 at Heneratgoda and by that of the Colombo Commercial 



Co. at Peradeniya. A comparison of the results obtained by the ^"^^^'^ shareholders' association. 



two processes showed the following details: -'^ circular was lately issued to shareholders of rubber com- 



Wickham Commercial panics inviting them to join the above association, which advo- 



Fuel 30 pounds 78 pounds catcs the establishment of a joint selHng agency. It announced 



Timv'.'/^'.^'.'/.'.'.'.'.'.. 50 minutes 50 minutes that it started with a clean slate and an open mind as to how 



I ,, ]7 nounds "'3'''. nound ■ ''^"^ questions of standardization and estate manasement could 



Rubber ".'.'.'.v.'.'.'!.'.; y.; 12 poimds l?"" pounds be mo.st cflfectively dealt with. 



Both the specimens were pronounced to be of superior quality new building or the deli testing station, medan. 



and are to be sent to the Rubber Exhibition to take place in The new building of the Deli Testing Station at Medan, Suma- 



London next June. tra, has been recently opened. 



Much attention was attracted by blocks of rubber treated by In the library there are a great number of practical works, 



the Byrne and otlier processes. while a reading room and photograph room supplement the other 



CEYLON and the LONDON RUBBER EXHIBITION. facilities of the new building. The last named room is intended 



,,,,... „. .... f ^ , , 1 for the development of photographs to be used bv the testing sta- 



Mr. R. A. Lync, Director ol Agriculture of Ceylon, has been • ■ ■ ., . . „ 



.. . , ., , , ,, „ti t'on in Its communications. 

 appointed commissioner for that island at the London Rubber 



Exhibition. .According to a recent statement, the contributions a crop to go with rubber. 



towards the expense of the representation of Ceylon equaled -phe Cotton Committee of the German Colonial Association 



S3.866. of which ?2.833 had been subscribed in !.,.,u|on and has taken up the question of some staple crop to be interplanted 



§1.033 in Ceylon. with rubber. Amongst the varieties of tree suggested by Herr 



PRIZES TO estate SUPERINTENDENTS. Otto Cantzler, director of the German Colonial Kapok Works, 



The Rubber Growers' Association announces the three follow- ^'^ Kapok, or tree cotton, and oil fruits. The former is being 



ing prizes in the form of silver cups, to be awarded at the forth- extensively used for upliolstery and bedding. Kamerun and 



coming Rul,l>er Exhibition, to estate superintendents or assistants : Togo "^ said to be particularly suited to the production of 



John McEwan's cup, for the best exhibit from whatever source; Kapok from Java seed. 



Thomas North Christie's cup, for the best exhibit produced in prospects of increased rubber consumption. 



Ceylon, and E. L. Hamilton's cup. for the best specimen from tj--.ii » r - j i u 



, „ , , ,, , ^ , , . „ , In discussing the prospects of increased rubber consumption, 



the I-edcrated Malav States or the Straits Settlements. x, j- ^ r i t- i • ^ ^ j • ^i /- 



„ , .,,',. . . -T-1 the director of a large rrench company interested in the Congo 



Only one cup will be given anv prize winner. 1 he cups are to ,, .. .- ^ ^u r ■. ^u ^ - ^i • j r j uu 



' ' , ' • , - '^''"s attention to the fact that in the period of dear rubber manu- 



be personal awards to the superintendents or estate assistants .. ^ i . i ,- . ■ i i ^- c j 



,, ., , , , r , I -I - T - , ■ , 1 lacturers had become artists in the production of goods contam- 



actuallv responsible for the successful exhibits. It is advisable . . . ^. / ^i. ^ ^ • i n^ ^i . 1 1 ■ 



, • . ,. , . , , . , ing a minimum proportion of that material. Aow that rubber is 



for those intending to compete to send lorward their names and i ,, ir j , i -li 



, . ., ... , - . , , . , ,,., . cheap thev can afford to use as large a proportion as possible, 



nave their responsibilitv delinitelv admitted. 1 hese prizes are . , ,', ,. ,, i- • ^- ^, r i .-^ ^ c i. 



, , •, ■, , , , , 1 tlius wholly or partiallv eliminating the use of substitutes. Such 



intended to encourage those on whom devolves tlie actual task . , , j ■ ■ "• , .i r i.-i , r ,i 



.?,.,, a course is advocated with a view to tlic lullument ot the 



ot producing the right grades ot rubber. ^ ... . . ^ 



guarantees upon whicli customers now insist. 



federated MALAY STATES RUBBER EXPORTS. 



, , . , , AFRICAN NOTES. 

 .Xccorihng t^' a cablegram trom the govcrninent to the 

 Malay States Information .Vgencv. tlie exports of rubber Crude rubber exports from Gabon, French Congo, advanced 

 from the Federated Malav States 'for the month of Tanuarv ^''O'" ^^^'^ PO""^^ in 1911 to 673,594 pounds in 1912-the en- 

 amounted to 2.542 tons, as compared with 2,131 tons in ""■« q"a"tity being destined for France. 



January. 1913. and 2.616 tons in the month of December last. Exports of rubber from the Gold Coast Colony, Britisli West 



Rubber exports from the Federated Malay States aggregated -Africa, showed a marked decline in 1912, aggregating only 



in 1911. 19,695.330 pounds; in 1912. 34.732.415 pounds, and last 1.990.699 pounds, valued at $820,867. Only three times in the last 



vear. 1913, 52.557.409 pounds. 23 years have they been less, whereas for several years during 



that period the quantitv has been about double the 1912 figures. 



the -'TEA-CUM-RUBBERS" become '-RUBBER-CUM-TEAS." Ti 1011 . ' .. I i -><;<co/;,-" J I J -t 



The 1911 exports amounted to 2,668,66/ pounds, valued at 



In the East there are certain plantations that are known as $1,067,610; those of 1910 to 3,223,265 pounds valued at $1,877,282, 



"Tea-Cum-Rubbers" which, being interpreted, means "tea with and for 1909 to 2.764,190 pounds valued at $1,282,871. 



rubber." This designation is applie.l to plantations which were Statistics of the trade of Madagascar for 1911 and 1912 indicate 



originally established solely for the production of tea and to prosperous conditions in that colonv and sliow an increase in 



which the pr..<luction ot rubber has been more recently added. ^,^^^^^ ,.,{ ^^^^^^ ^^p^^^^ {^^^^ $881,297 in 1911, to $1,000,016 in 



But in some of these plantations the rublier has become so much jq.2 

 more important as an item of revenue than tea that "tea-cum- 



, , „ .... , ^ J ^, NEW BUREAU OF ARBITRATION AT AMSTERDAM. 



ruliber as a designation is no longer accurate, and the proper , , , • r . , , t^ , i -r- i 



^ ,,,,... . . ij , .. LI , >■ At the recent annual meeting of the Amsterdam Rubber trade 



form of the hvphenated description would be rubber-cum-teas. , . . , , ,, . . , , <■ , . i 



.-Association, the following were appointed members of the board 



COOLIES' WAGES IN MALAYA. of the Arbitration Bureau : Mr. J. F. de Beaufort, Mr. P. Van 



At a recent meeting of planters of the Malayan peninsula the Leeuwen Boomkamp, Mr. J. X. Burger, Mr. P. Joosten, Mr. J. 



question was discussed of a possible reduction of coolies' wages, H. Rogge Hczn and Mr. Carel Wynand. 



