\ i ij - 1 i, 1915. | 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



603 



THE EDITORS BOOK TABLE. 



RUBBER PRODUCING COMPANIES, 1915. MINCING LANE TEA 

 ■ i Rubbei Share Brokers' Association, Ltd., Londoi [Board i 

 8a o, ; 4~ pp, Price 3 shilling . I 



"""PHIS hand-book presents, in form convenient for read} refer- 

 * in, r, concise, authentic data concerning the financial condi- 

 tion and operation of 526 companies representing issued capital of 

 £57,361,000, an increase of £5,884,000; though showing four corn- 

 panic- less than were listed in the same hand-book for 1913. 

 Plantation companies have studied economy of managemenl 

 with good effect and a large proportion of them should be 

 making UK) per cent, profil at a selling price for rubbei ol 

 2 shillings per pound. Cost of production may be expected 

 to drop to 9 pence per pound with well managed mpanies, \t 

 ill. outbreal oi the war governmental assistance avi rted anything 

 hi . .i crisis and the financing of the industry soon became normal. 

 The book closes with a li>t of plantation o ecretaries 



and addresses. It will be found very useful to investors and 

 othei ei ing reliable information in regard to the planting in- 

 dustry in the Far East 



INDEX I" PATENTS, tECHNOLOGV \M' BIB RAPITS 01 



China Wood Oil (Tung Oil). A compilation of everything thai lias 



i taeoi cca < til I China Wood ' li] I, with tr; 

 and names ol authors and publications. Compiled and published by 

 Gi li f. Warren Vrmitage. Two vols, of two parts 



each, comprising nearly 2,000 pages. [Quarto, pa] 



\- the tit 1 , ab iv< implies, this publication is simply an index. 



but it is an index of an unusual character, as it fills over 130 



I .m. 1 contains over 40,000 references. The compilation on 



tin subject of China wood oil — of which this publication is but 



the index— has engaged the energies of these two authors for a 



year and a half, and it contains matter taken from over 800 

 publications. More than half of the matter is taken from foreign 

 sources and has never appeared before in English, being espe- 

 cially translated for this work. This compilation consists of care- 

 ful transcripts, translations, photographs and blue prints, of 

 every separate article that has ever been printed on this subject. 

 These various items have been arranged on uniform sized sheets 

 and bound together between handsome loose leaf covers into four 

 l.n j I imi , as a manuscript edition, and the contents are 



thorough!} covered by the 40.000 citations given in the index. 



The rubber manufacturer will lind quite a good many refer- 

 ence- to rubber and kindred substances. For instance, under 

 "Rubber"' there are 51 references; under "Rubber-like Product-," 

 12; under "Rubber Resins," 40; under "Various Caoutchouc-like 

 Materials, Mixtures and Substitutes," 15. There are 22 refer- 

 ence- to factice. Substitutes for rubber have 2o references, vul- 

 canization, 19, and related subjects, 20. 



The work, itself, consists of four large lunik-. Only a few of 



these complete I k- have been made up at the start, as it is the 



intention of the authors to supply purchasers with pages on such 

 subjects as they are interested in. Anyone looking through the 

 index and ing references to matter which he would like 



to get can find out the cost and other details by writing to either 

 of the two compiler-. George H. Stevens, 77 Orange avenue. 

 [rvington, New Jersey, or J. Warren Armitage, 886 Lake street, 

 Newark. New Jersey. 



FIELD PRACTICE. AN INSPECTION MANUAL FOR PROPERTY 

 Owners, Fire Departments and Inspection Offices. Covering Common 

 Fire Hazards and their Safeguarding and Fire Protection and Upkeep. 

 Published by the National Fire Protection Association, Boston, M; 

 chusetts. I 190 pages, leather bound. Price $1.50.] 



As indicated by the title, this hook covers the whole field of 

 fire protection — the means of safeguarding or removing the 

 causes which originate fires; the providing of means which may 

 make it possible to confine fire to the space where it originates, 

 and the necessary means of extinguishing lire. The whole sub- 

 ject i- treated in detail. This manual will serve as a guide for 



propertj ownei i- well as for municipalities, lire department 

 inspection offices, and for factory superintendents 



DEPRECIATION IN THE RETAIL SHOE BUSINESS. 



The Bureau oi Business Research connected with tin- Gradu- 

 ate's School ol Business Administration of Harvard University, 

 has issued, since the foundation of that school a few years ago 

 a number of bulletins on different pha-c- of Imsiness adminis- 

 tration. Bulletin No. 4. "Depreciation in the Retail Shoe Busi- 

 has just come from the press in the form of an octavo 

 pamphlet of 32 pages. The object of this bulletin is to explain 

 the treatment of inventories and depreciation on the profit and 

 loss statement of die Harvard system of accounts for shoe re- 

 tailers, and also to -how how the profit and loss Statement is de- 

 rived from the set of double entry hooks as usually kept. Shoe 

 retailers, including those who deal in rubber footwear, will lind 

 this pamphlet exceeding!) helpful in showing them how best to 

 charge off the natural depreciation of their -lock. The bulletin 

 old for 50 cents, and is printed bj the Harvard University 

 I'ress, i .mi!. i idgi . Massachusetts. 



MONETARY SYSTEMS OF LATIN-AMERICA. 



The National City Bank of New York has issued a number of 



interesting publii i 'on relating t mmercial matter- in South 



America ami intended primarily to show to the manufacturers 

 and importers of the United States something of the field for 

 their operation- that i- offered by the Latin-Ameri utries. 



\ pamphlet of 32 pages just issued by the Xational Bank and 

 written by Joseph T. Cosby, manager of its foreign department. 

 i- entitled, "Latin-American Monetarj System- and Exchange 

 i onditions," and in a concise way it gives the information cov- 

 ered by it- title. Taking the various southern republics in al- 

 phabetical order, it describes the monetary system of each and 

 tin methods by which exchange is effected. This little publica- 

 tion must prove of value to all who wish to do business with our 

 southern neighbors. 



REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS IN LATIN AMERICA. 



American manufacturers who plan to extend the sale of their 



trade-marked g Is in Latin American countries should avail 



themselves of the information placed at their disposal by the 

 Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce, E. E. Pratt, chief. The Department has issued 

 "Tariff Series No. 31." on "Registration of Trade Marks in 

 Latin America." 



FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR 

 RUBBER CULTIVATION IN THE NETHERLAND INDIES. 



This association was projected in December, 1913, by vari- 

 ous persons of Dutch, and other nationality interested in the 

 cultivation of rubber in the Xetherland Indies, for the pur- 

 pose of serving the general interests by uniting the different 

 groups connected with this cultivation. The membership 

 numbers 155. of which 61 are companies. The association 

 i- assured of the friendly co-operation of the planters' asso- 

 ciations in the Netherlands Indies. It has rendered valuable 

 assistance in the financing of many e-tates in the war crisis 

 and following the war will doubtless enter an enlarged field 

 of regular and productive work. 



PRIZES FOR PLANS t»I- RUBBER ESTATE FACTORIES. 



The council of the association has recently offered prizes 

 for plans for complete rubber estate factories for the making 

 of crepe and smoked sheet. Both plans are to he adapted 

 for a capacity, to begin with, of 1(10.000 kilos | 220.460 pounds] 

 of dry rubber per annum, which by three extensions can be 

 increased to 250,000 kilos [551.156 pounds]. The first prize 

 is 1.500 florins [$603] and the second 500 florins [$201]. Com- 

 petition closes March 1, 1916. and designs arc to he sent in to 

 the office of the association, 13. Krieuterdyk, The Hague, or 

 to its office at Medan, Deli. Particulars can be obtained from 

 the association. 



