RUBBER PLANTING 23 



the latter depends largely upon the export of rubber for 

 its revenue. 



Special concessions are now being made to encourage 

 the introduction of foreign capital and the opening up 

 of plantations, by the granting of premiums and re- 

 mission of taxes. In addition, the Federal Government 

 is taking steps : 



1. To encourage rubber collection and cultivation 

 by advancing money on easy terms, and by the offer of 

 premiums on new plantations. 



2. To encourage industries for the manufacture of 

 rubber goods also by the offer of premiums. 



3. To help the regular workers and immigrant 

 labourers by the provision of special boarding estab- 

 lishments and hospitals and by the sale of stores at cost 

 price. 



4. To reduce the cost of transport by opening 

 railways and improving the navigation of rivers. 



5. To encourage the production of foodstuffs in the 

 Amazon Valley, in order to obviate the necessity of 

 transporting such materials for long distances. 



6. To hold triennial exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro 

 of everything relating to the rubber industry of the 

 country. 



And last but not least to open agricultural experi- 

 ment stations in different parts of the country 1 . 



1 Abridged from the Handbook of the Third International Rubber and 

 Allied Trades Exhibition, New York, 1912. 



