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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1912. 



Vol. 46. 



MAY 1, 1912. 



No. 2. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



Page. 



Rubber Plantations as Convergers of Human Life 365 



Rubber Trees in Times of Drought 366 



The Unhappy Situation in Mexico 366 



Glimpses of Rubber Lands 



[With l,i Illustrations.] By the Edilor 369 



The Rubber Industry and the Census of igog 374 



The Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Association 377 



The German Material Testing Bureau 385 



The Rubber Industry in Japan 



Out Regular Correspondent 390 



Some Notes on Rubber Planting 391 



The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co.'s Annual Report 394 



Obituary Record 395 



Editor's Book Table 398 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 401 



Miscellaneous: 



The Passing of the Carriage 



The Storage of Rubber Cement 



Gutta-Percha-Tissue Cement 



A Novel Use for Rubber Cement 



A Sample of a Rubber Alan's Art Illustrated 



Rubber Boots With Leather Soles Illustrated 



Our Tire Suggestions Bearing Fruit Illustrated 



German Official Tests of Balloon Fabrics 



New Tests of Rubber 



Asbestos Fabrics 



German View of the Situation 



Rubber and -Aviation in France Rene Bobet 



French Manufacturers and Rubber Duties 



.American, English and German Rubber Consumption 



Japanese Increased Crude Rubber Imports 



Fertilizers in Rubber Cultivation 



Notes from British Guiana Regular Corresfondent 



A Million Acres of Plantation Rubber 



Dl y Cost at a Glance Chart 



New Trade Publications 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 



Rubber Machinery 



Rubberized .\uto Tops 



.Illustrated 



373 

 375 

 375 

 376 

 376 

 383 

 384 

 385 

 386 

 386 

 387 

 388 

 389 

 389 

 390 

 390 

 392 

 392 

 395 

 398 

 399 

 400 

 405 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 408 



[United States. Great Britain. France. Germany. Belgium.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Trade in Akron Owr Correspondent 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Chicago Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Rhode Island Our Correspondent 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Trenton Our Correspondent 



403 



378 

 379 

 380 

 381 

 381 

 382 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 410 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TTNITED STATES BITBBER CO. 

 The twentieth annual meeting of the stockholders of the United 

 States Rubber Co., will be held at the principal office of the 

 company, in the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Tues- 

 day, May 21, 1912, at 12 o'clock noon, for the election of di- 

 rectors and for the transaction of any business that may come 

 before the meeting, including considering and voting upon the 

 approval and ratification of all purchases, contracts, acts, pro- 

 ceedings, elections and appointments by the Board of Directors 

 or the Executive Committee since the nineteenth annual meet- 

 ing held May 16, 1911, and of all matters referred to in the 

 twentieth annual report which will be sent to stockholders before 

 the meeting. The transfer books will not be closed, but the 

 New Jersey Corporation Law will not allow to be voted any 

 share of stock which shall have been transferred after 

 May 1, 1912. 



Antiuerp. 



Rubber St.\tistics for M.\rch 



Details. 1912. 1911. 1910. 



Stocks, Feb. 28 kilos 521,956 539,207 516,534 



Arrivals in March 250,964 483,396 263,188 



Congo sorts 172,449 365,463 174,167 



Other sorts 7,642 60,342 31,452 



Plantation sorts 70,873 57,591 57,569 



.Aggregating 772,920 1,022,603 779,722 



Sales in March 413,904 376,989 280,620 



Stocks, March 31 359,016 645,614 499,102 



Arrivals since Tan. 1... 1,038,700 1.269.668 1,039.679 



Congo sorts 730,472 940,962 830,830 



Other sorts 30,618 161,177 80,155 



Plantation sorts 277,610 167,529 128,694 



Sales since January 1.. 1. 354.422 1.212.266 1,082.089 



1909. 

 331,433 

 544,126 

 410,838 

 112,645 



20,643 



875,559 

 279,704 



1908. 



907,104 



692,398 



587,972 



93,077 



11,349 



1,599,502 

 462,610 



595,855 1,136,892 



1,128,092 



781,387 



277,064 



69,641 



1,517,809 



1,347,423 



144,718 



25,668 



1.127.972 1,387,811 



Rubber Arriv.vls from the Co.vgo. 

 ^1.^RCH 21. — By the steamer Bruxellesville: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale -Africaine) kilos 70,200 



do (Chemins de fer Grands Lacs) 8,100 



do (Intertropical) 200 



do (Cie. Forest and Minii-re) 2,000 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 2,500 



do (Alberta) 800 



do 1,600 



Societe Coloniale Anverscise (Cie. du Lomami) 5,060 



do (Cie. du Kasai) 60,700 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Comfina) 19,000 



do 2,500 



Willaert Freres 6,000 



Edmund \'an Steensel 700 179,360 



."^PRiL 10. — By the steamer Elicahctlirille: 



Bunge & Co (Intertropical) kilos 11,300 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 4,500 



do 2,300 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Haul Congo) 16,400 



do (Kouango franc) 12,900 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Cie. du Kasai) 72,000 



do (Comfina) 9,500 



do 6.500 



Willaert Freres 10,000 145,400 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



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[From January 1 to March 25, 

 Chamber of Commerce.] 



1911 and 1912. Compiled by the Ceylon 



1911 



To Gre:it Britain f'oiDids 695,304 



To United States 449,576 



To Belgium 72,582 



To Australia 



To Germany 



To Canada 



To .Austria 



To Japan 



To Norway and Sweden. 



To Italv 



To Holland 



To India 



10,167 

 6,282 

 9,971 



ii, 953 



' ' ' 750 

 100 

 40 



1912. 



1,548,988 



987,218 



355,810 



26,754 



21,330 



12,121 



2,717 



2,181 



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Total 1,256,725 



[Same period 1910—521.528; same 1909—226,975.] 



ToT.\L Exports From M.-\laya. 



2,957.158 



[From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlow & Co., Singa- 

 pore. These figures include the production of the Federated Malay States, 

 but not of Ceylon.] 



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Singapore. 

 March 7. 

 .founds 1,727,515 



65,982 



24,521 



7,040 



Port Swet- 

 Penang. tenham. 



To- 

 Great Britain. 

 Continent . . . 



Japan 



Australia .... 



Ceylon 



United States 336.420 



Feb. 15. 



1,112,134 



12,933 



6,457 



Feb. 29. 



2,766,067 



353,427 



13,639 91,066 



Total 2,161,478 



Same period, 1911 1,226.855 



Same period. 1910 581.467 



Same period. 1909 519,576 



1,145,163 

 467,040 

 296,450 

 337,204 



3,210,560 

 2,479,933 

 1,329,538 



Total 



1912. 



5,605.716 



432,342 



30.978 



7,040 



104,705 



336,420 



6,517,201 



4,173.828 



2,207,455 



856,780 



