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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1912. 



.estates, came to town recently and, in the course of an interview, 

 said : "The Hcvea trees planted some years ago are doing very 

 well indeed. Many of them have attained a height of 25 to 30 

 feet and a girth of 17 to 20 inches at a distance of 3 feet from 

 the ground. All the Hcveas are seeding ; a satisfactory sign. 

 Altogether such progress is being made, that in a year or two 

 tapping operations can be commenced." 



Experimental Station at Issororo in the Northwest district has 

 been commenced. Recently, Mr. F. A. Stockdale, Assistant 

 Director of Science and Agriculture, tapped, it is understood, 

 some eighty of the trees, the hei,ght and girth of which were re- 



FURTHER BRITISH GUIANA NOTES. 



BAL.\T.\ PRO.SPECTS. 



A CCORDING to the "Daily Argosy,'' the rains, while not yet 



** satisfactory in quantity, have been sufficient to permit the 



iTioving of stocks of last season's balata which had accumulated. 



A shipment of balata for the Consolidated Rubber and Balata 

 Estates, Limited, was expected in the course of a few weeks. It 

 aiuount.s to about 14,000 pounds and is from grants on the Takatu. 

 The Ijalata was not collected this year. Messrs. Bugle & Co. 

 also had a big amount of balata at one of their grants held over 

 from last season, and the arrival of this was expected in a short 

 time. 



The first consignments of balata collected this season, at the 

 remoter grants, at any rate, are not expected till about the end 

 of August or beginning of September. It will be well on in July 

 before the men who have gone up will get settled down on the 

 grants for collecting work. Then, after the trees have been bled, 

 some time will elapse before the milk has been converted into 

 marketable balata, and after that there will be the time taken 



SuG.\R C.\NE Mill, Golden Grove, Demer.ar.\, British Gui.\xa. 



in getting the balata transported to Georgetown. It should not 

 be very long, however, before consignments are obtained from 

 grants not a great distance from Georgetown. 



EXPERIMENT.\T. T.\PriNG .^T ISSORORO. 

 In accordance with a recent decision by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, the experimental tapping of rubber trees at the Government 



Meadow B.\nk Avenle, Demer.vr.x, B. G. 



ported on very favorably. The results of the tapping have not 

 been made public. 



EXHIBITS IN COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES. 



With reference to the decision of the British Guiana Perma- 

 nent Exhibitions Committee, not to take part in the approaching 

 New York Rubber Exposition, the principle enunciated is of- 

 ficially stated to be general in its application. 



The resolution passed at a recent meeting of the committee 

 was to the effect that only exhibits of first-rate quality and in 

 large commercial quantities should in future be sent to exhibi- 

 tions, it being considered that more good to the colony would 

 accrue from these than from the display of small sample col- 

 lections. 



BRITISH GUIANA EALATA COMPANY, LTD. 



Arrangements are said to have been made on behalf of Jlr. 

 Ed. Maurer, of New York, whose attorney in the colony is Mr. 

 Edward Edwards, for working the balata grants of the British 

 Guiana Balata Co., Limited. 



This company was formed in 1910 to take over licenses for 

 collecting rubber and balata over an area of forest land compris- 

 ing 448.000 acres, situated near the Essequibo river. 



It is stated that the lialata trees in the explored part average 

 8 to the acre; the whole property containing over three and a 

 half million trees, varying in height from 80 to 100 feet. 



THE MAUS TAPPING SYSTEM. 



.According to the "Singapore Free Press," Mr. Theodor Maus, 

 who has had a good deal of rubber experience in East Africa, 

 has arrived in Singapore, with the purpose of trying to introduce 

 a system of tapping Hevea Brasiliensis to which he has given 

 much experimental attention. It is claimed for his system that 

 it stimulates the natural flow of latex to a hitherto unprecedented 

 degree. Mr. Maus affirms that in the case of young trees of 

 tappable age this plan will yield more than twice the amount of 

 first class dry rubber than is at present to be looked for. There 

 is even a smaller degree of bark removed than is the case with 

 the half herring-bone system. Manual labor is also reduced, and 

 generally much better results are obtained with much less strain 

 on the trees. Mr. Maus believes that the adoption of the method 

 he has devised would secure at once economy and efficiency, with 

 a larger output. 



