March 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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the left bank of the Casamanca River, shipped from the port 

 of Zighinchor, is called Casamanca and is like ordinary Gambia. 

 Casamanca Boulam is shipped from the port of that name. It 

 comes from the uplands, however, and is like Senegal rubber, 

 deep brown throughout, wet and foul, and contains earth and 

 sand. The shrinkage is 30 to 50 per cent. 



Gambie. a, am, and B. These are of the nigger type. See 

 Gambia. 



Grand Bassam.. See Assinee. 



Gold Coast. Carpodinus and Clitandra rubber, chiefly in lump 

 from strips and buttons. It also comes in biscuits and niggers, 

 hard and soft. The flake is wet and foul smelling. Shrinkage, 

 30 to 55 per cent. 



Half Jack. See Assinee. 



Ibo. See Mozambique. 



Ikelemba. See Congo. 



Inhambane. See Mozambique. 



IsANGA. See Congo. 



Ivory Coast. See Assinee. 



Jakoma. See Congo. 



Kassai. See Congo. 



KoNAKRY. Landolphia rubber from French Guinea. Comes as 

 Massai and -Adeli. Similar to Gambia. Shrinkage, 15 to 44 per 

 cent. 



K.\TANGA. See Congo. 



LoANGO. See Gaboon. 



Lahou. See Assinee. 



Lamu. See German East Africa. 



Liberia. Landolphia rubber from the state of that name; 

 comes in small balls, brown or black in color, and is wet and 

 contains vegetable matter and sand. It is graded as lump, 

 hard flake and soft. Shrinkage 20 per cent to 40 per cent. 



LiNDi Balls. See Zanzibar. 



Lamu Balls. See Zanzibar. 



LoANDA. See Benguela. 



LoMBiso. Cryptostegia rubber from Madagascar. See Mada- 

 gascar. 



LopoRi. See Congo. 



LouRENCO Marquez. See Mozambique. 



LoMi. See Addah Niggers. 



Lower Congo. Carpodinus and Clitandra rubber from the 

 Congo and Angola. See Congo. 



LuviTUKU. See Congo. 



Lac Leopold. See Congo. 



Lagos Silk. Rubber from the Funtumia, .sometimes Ficus. 

 Shrinkage 30 to 40 per cent. See Old Calabar. 



Lagos Lumps. Biscuits and strips from Landolphia rubber. 

 Shrinkage 40 to 60 per cent. See Old Calabar. 



Madagascar. Landolphia, Cryptostegia and Euphorbia rub- 

 bers from the island of that name. The general designation is 

 East Coast and West Coast. The rubber is coagulated by 

 salt water and by boiling. The principal port of shipment is 

 Tamatave. It comes in large dark brown or black balls known 

 as niggers, red ball, gristly, black ball, and also in balls of a 

 red brown, as pinky, and in irregular rounded lumps, wet and 

 earthy. Shrinkage 25 to 45 per cent. The grades are as fol- 

 lows : Tamatave or prime pinky Tamatave, which is the best 

 grade; Majunga; East and West Coast; balls, red, black and 

 gristly ; brown cure, a low grade of slab ; white virgin sheet ; 

 unripe balls containing much bark. Madagascar rubber bears 

 the names also of localities as Morondava, Barabaja. 



Majunga. See Madagascar. 



Mayumba. See Gaboon. 



Massai. See Sierra Leone. 



Mossamedes. See Benguela. 



Mongala. See Aruwimi. 



Mozambique. Landolphia rubber from Portuguese East Africa 

 and from Natal shipped in marbles and balls, spindles, sausage, 

 Sticks and liver. It is white, orange, and black, contains little 



moisture but is considerably adulterated with vegetable debris 

 and sand. The best grade is orange ball No. 1, 2 and 3. The 

 spindles are graded as removed and unripe. Ports of shipment 

 are Lourenco Marquez, Inhambane. Beira and Ibo are also used 

 in designation. 



Mombassa. See Zanzibar. 



"Mgoa." See Zanzibar. 



Nunez. See Rio Nunez. 



Niger. See Old Calabar. 



Nyassa. See Zanzibar. 



Orange Ball. See Mozambique. 



Old Calabar. F'untumia rubber from Southern Nigeria and 

 the Cameroons shipped in the form of balls stuck together and 

 is called block balls. Known as Benin and Niger, also as silk 

 rubber and Lagos silk rubber. 



QuiTTAH. See Addah Niggers. 



Root Rubber. Rubber obtained by maceration and beating 

 from the roots of aberrant Landolphias, as Clitandra or Carpodinus. 

 See Congo. 



Rio Nunez. Landolphia rubber from French Guinea and 

 adjacent territory. Comes in balls and strings. 



Salt Fond. See Gold Coast. 



Sankuru. See Congo. 



Senegal. See Soudan. 



Soudan (Senegal). Landolphia rubber from French Senegal 

 and the Soudan shipped in the form of more or less bulky 

 masses or in flat sheets. Reddish brown in color and contains 

 bits of wood, earth, and some moisture; very inferior. Ports 

 of shipment are Kayes, Bakel and White Cape. Shrinkage 25 

 to 50 per cent. 



Sierra Leone. Landolphia, Funtumia and Ficus rubbers. It 

 comes in niggers, cakes, twists, balls and sheets. It is of a 

 dirty reddish brown color, contains impurities and moisture. Is 

 also known as Manoh. Shrinkage 10 to 40 per cent. 



Silk Rubber. Funtumia rubber from Lagos and Southern 

 Nigeria. See Old Calabar. 



Tamatave. See Madagascar. 



Tava. See Congo. 



Tanga. See Zanzibar. 



L^eLle. See Congo. 



Upper Congo. See Congo. 



Wamba. See Congo. 



White Virgin Sheet or Slab. See Madagascar. 



Zanzibar. Landolphia rubber shipped from Zanzibar and 

 Central Africa. It is like Mozambique and contains similar 

 adulterants. Marketed as Nyassa, Lindi balls, Donde marbles, 

 Lamu balls, Mombassa, Tanga, "Mgoa." Shrinkage 30 to 50 

 per cent. 



RUBBER STAMPS IN ARGENTINA 



There are several establislimcnts in Buenos Aires whose busi- 

 ness is the manufacture or sale of rubber stamps. The rubber 

 stamp gum was all imported previous to the war, but since 1914 

 a local mechanical rubber goods company has supplied the entire 

 demand at prices lower than those for foreign rubber. The local 

 concern probably will continue to occupy its favorable position 

 in the trade, because of the lesser duties paid for the raw mate- 

 rials and because of lower labor costs. The quality of the do- 

 mestic product is stated to be perfectly satisfactory. 



.•\ccording to a census or motor cars in Sweden, taken 

 June 1, 1920, there are 8,506 cars and trucks and 9,059 motor- 

 cycles in the entire country; of these Stockholm has 2,137 cars 

 and trucks and 1,015 motorcycles. Recent information indicates 

 that the January, 1921, registration will show more than 13,000 

 cars and trucks in Sweden, due to the heavy importations dur- 

 ing 1920. 



