June 1, 1912.; 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



447 



Some Notes on Rubber Planting. 



DR. HUBER ON THE BRAZILIAN SITUATION. t„ th^ f^^t ^,,^4 the increased product for 1911 had so far coun- 



P.\R1ICULARS received of the views of Dr. Jacques Huber, t^racted the effect of the average drop as compared with 1910 of 



as expressed by h.m at Colombo, on his way to Malaya i^. 3^. p^, p^^^d in price realized, that the profits for 1911 were 



and the Dutch East Indies, show that he anticipates that only i32.000 short of those for 1910. The results of various past 



in a few years, at the present rate of increase, the production years were thus summarized by Mr. Lampard : 



of the plantations of the East will far exceed that of the Ama- ,. ,-■ , -r. r ,-,..,. 



,,,.,. , ,. Year. Product. Profits. Dividend. 



zon valley, which is more or less stationary. ,,-^, ,,^ -„o 



„. .... ^, ^ ^ \ ^, , r uu 1^*06 il9.j99 18 per cent 



His opinion is, however, that even at present the cost of rubber ,q^- .,,,_„ ,, 97nnn 9n " " 



production throughout the Amazon region, is in a general wav ,,-1^0 o'a^oo .. -nnnn orv .. .1 



less than three shillings (72 cents) per pound. At a selling price ^^^ ^^^..^ ,. ^3. ^^^ ^ „ .. 



ot three shillings, there would of course be for some districts ,„,„ fi-^ n? " 171 fKTn inn " " 



little profit under the actual conditions of labor, freight and taxa- ,q, , ■jonovo ■• 1 innf\n -n " 



tion; but with improvement of these conditiorjs (in which direc- 

 tion the government has already taken steps) this price would, "^^e authorized capital of the company is ilSO,000. 

 he considers, even permit a certain extension of the rubber in- '^^'^ P''°*^t5 '"^'^^ '" ^'-'^ >'^3" amount thus to nearly four times 

 dustry on the Amazon. *'^^ capital invested, while the total dividends represent 318 per 

 Dr. Huber further expressed the view that it would be im- cent. 



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possible to eradicate what had been for fiftv years the principal t, ■ , , c , , , , ■ 



. , , r T> ■, I • u »i 1 J J T jr i I ^"S yields for the last tliree business vcars ending March 31, 



industry of Brazil, on which the people depend. In fact, as he , , .^^ ^r^ -^-, ■,^o j ,A,,i ,, .,, ?-,^ , 



■1 .'TT VT, *u I * • u- T. 1 . .• ut. "^^'e 'jeen: 1909-10. 3/1,318 pounds; 1910-11. 411,476 pounds; 



said: Even with the lowest prices which plantation rubber ,„,, ,^ .■j.r^-n j ti. • 1 , ^ ,r.,, ,-, • ,-,,,, 



, , n: , ^, ■„ , , » ^ ; uu r .u 1911-12, 434,9o0 pounds. The yield for 1911-12 is slight y below 



could afford, there will ahvavs be an output of rubber from the , . ■ s j ^ 



. ,, ... " ,.,■,.,.. r the estimate. 



Amazon valley, which cannot be neglected in the estimations of Scottish malay rubber co., limited. 



future rubber supply." -phe yield for the first four months of 1912 has proved nearly 



FORWARD SALES OF RUBBER. jo^^ble that of the corresponding period of 1911 : the respective 



At the annual meeting of the Anglo-Malay Rubber Co., Lim- fig^.g, ^eing 37.446 pounds, against 19.248 pounds. 



ited, the chairman expressed the opinion that the publication of 



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forward sales should be at the discretion of the board. In answer i~ , , , ,...,-„„ 



^ .^u • c 1 u ij It i u uu 1 J 1 J^'of t"^ three months ending April 30, 1912, the vield of rubber 



to the view of a shareholder that when rubber was low, forward . , _, ,,- , „ ^ ' , . • 



, ^ , J » , ^u u- c . . r .1. Tvf ■ 's reported as 26,463 pounds. One fifth of this quantity has been 



sales tended to keep the big manufacturers out of the Mincing , , , . , , . ^ ^ i j . «= ^..v. . 



T 1 ^ -IT T J -J "T. • . 1 1-1,, so''J at the average equivalent of about $1.20. 

 Lane market, Mr. Lampard said : It is extremely advisable, 



in my judgment at all events, even at a sacrifice of U. or 2d. per ELECTRIC COAGULATION. 



pound, to make forward contracts with manufacturers, the reason 



being that it is absolutely an essential point of a manufacturer's p ePLYING to a question the "Gummi-Zeitung- states that 



business to be able to cover his commitments forward. If he JA trials have been made of the use of the electric current for 



does not do it with plantation rubber he is going to do it with t,,^ extraction of crude rubber from late.x, suitable apparatus for 



hard Para-(Hear, hear.)-and it should be the aim and object of that purpose having been constructed. Yet up to the present such 



everyone associated with the cultivated rubber industry to see processes have not been generally adopted, as the current is 



that the produce is distributed as freely and as easily as possible „s„3„,, ^^t available at the points of extraction or preparation 



through the manufacturers' hands, and that is at the back of our ^^ English patent of October 10, 1908 (No. 21,441) was 



policy." (Applause.) granted to Thomas Cockrill, of Colombo, Ceylon, according to 



LONDON ASIATIC RUBBER & PRODUCE COMPANY, LIMITED. 1 ■ , ^l ^- n r , . ^, , , , . 



T , ., , , ^- r ^1 u which the continuous flow of latex is filtered and gradually dis- 



1 HE fourth annual general meeting of the above company was , ., ^ , ,, , , . , , ,. ,, , , „ . 



^, , , , . T , T7 ^, ^ t, -^^ J •. ij tnbuted over the whole width of an endless band. By the action 



recently held in London, rrom the accounts submitted it would i , , ^ ■ , , ,, 



., . ^, ^ c A ^- c 1- 13 ^ c .. u '^' the electric current, the crude rubber is deposited in a granu ar 



seem that the cost of production f. o. b. Port Swettenham was .i t j , • , • . . . 



1 ^c\^J ■ imi • * i aj ■ inin a jj- tt i- i i v[\?l%s upon the band, which is put in motion and passes through 



\s. 4.91(7. in 1911 against Is. Ad. in 1910. Adding English sale ,, ...... . . ^, , ^ 



, ^, »u . . 1 .. n c\A^ J . u-i rollers, which bring it to a continuous strip. The latex serum 



and other expenses the total cost was 2s. 0.4o d. per pound, while r, r ., , j • . , .. , 



,, ... .1 ,, ..A J J flows from the band into a receiver, while the rubber strip is 



the average gross price realized was 4s. 11.49d. per pound. ,. ■ ,i i j j t , j t . , ... 



T-i ■ ,j T-T/coo J • .. ion^-7T ■ imA I •. .1 mechanically loosened and brushed. It is then treated with warm 



The vield was 332,688 pounds, against 180.477 in 1910, while the ^ \, ■ , , , j „ , . ^ ,, 



; r inn • ^-nonoA j \t j u- t, water, runs through metal heated rollers and is finally cut up. 



estimate for 1912 is 600.000 pounds. New modern machinery has r i ^- r j ^ -i j . , , , . 



, • . 1, J , ,1 „ , , ..T-,- J T ui ■. r . Information of a detailed character seems to be lacking as to 



been installed at the recently erected Diamond Jubilee factory. ^, ^. , e , ■ , , , ■ , . , 



the practical success of this method, which requires electrical 



ANGLO-MALAY RUBBER CO., LIMITED. . r , , . , _.,,., 



.^^ . ^, » 1, •.» I .. ^u . 1 .• apparatus of a more or less extensive character. The claim has, 



AcccRDixG to the report submitted at the recent annual meeting , , j ,i , ■ , . .... 



f ., • ., » t j: 1A11 -TOAA^T I ■ ^ however, been made that by Its adoption pure rubber with smooth 



of this company, the output for 1911 was 780,972 pounds, against , ,_ v. • j , , ., ,. . 



.• » rV-AAAA A -ri • .V u. • J r surface can be obtained from a neutral or an alkaline latex. It 



an estimate of 7jO,000 pounds. I his quantity was obtained from . i j .u .. .^l- r ,, , • .... 



, ^ -,-A - u ■ 1 L -f , t • 'S remarked that this use of the electric current would simul- 



about i.laO acres in bearing, the number of trees tapped being . i .. » i j: , , , , 



o£A-no TT J .u ■ . .1 ,_ • J taneously extract and purify the crude rubber. 

 260,328. Under these circumstances the averages obtained were 



about 3 pounds per tree and 360 pounds of rubber per acre. 



The cost of production and sale, everything included, was Is. the reported stoppage of acre rubber shipments. 

 S^id. per pound, while the average net price realized was 4.r. Interest was aroused by a statement which appeared on 

 W^d. May 21 in a daily journal, to the effect that a dispatch from 

 For 1912, the estimated product is 900,000 pounds, of which Rio de Janeiro said : "It is reported from Manaos that the 

 192,434 pounds have been harvested during the first quarter of Acre rebels have stopped the shipping of rubber." Inquiry failed 

 the year. Forward contracts for 1912 have been made for 144 to obtain confirmation of the report. One importer qualified it 

 tons at an average of 4s. 6.41rf. per pound. as a move of some speculative interest, with the object of boost- 

 In commenting upon the report, Mr. Arthur Lampard alluded ing prices. 



