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Mr. Consul Jesurun, in his Report on the Trade of Curaçao and 
its Dependencies for 1898, p. 7, gives the following account of the 
present state of the industry :— 
exu uud eri of aloes came from the Island of Aruba, 
and has been re-shipped to New York, the only market where 
anything near the cost ts of manufacturing could be obtained 
for the indifferent quality. Aruba, Bonaire, and Curagao could 
produce very clean and high grade aloes were the price for such 
quality any better than that obtainable at present on foreign 
markets, where buyers give preference to the dirty or low grades 
on account of cheapness, and because those who handle this 
article abroad are able to obtain, by means of suitable machinery 
and processes, the exact grade desired at a far lower cost than is 
po ible in these islands. The low prices for this article have 
been yielding less, owing to the BE ga levied by this 
Government, and the producers and exporters have suffered 
greatly. In ‘the Island of ety where there are large tracts of 
land planted only with aloes, the producers are unable to export 
any qu pits) for the above Medo and the same is to be said as 
to this 
Assam Rubber in Egypt.—A short note in the Kew Ed vd 
mentary letters show the Een that Mr. Floyer has met with in 
continuing the experime 
MR. E. A. FLOYER TO ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Cairo, July 17, 1898. 
SIR, 
THANK you for sending me the Bulletin about our india- 
rubber. 
This year we are trying the yield of each tree. Mr. Luiji 
Heinschneider, of the Gezira Palace, has placed some trees 
ars 
ped. s 
gave 23 Ibs.; No. 2, 5$ lbs. The tapping is condueted with a 
view of getting another yield next year from the same trees. 
The year's crop of ee will be about 7,000 only. We are 
still unsuccessful with see 
Yours trul 
y 
(Signed) ERNEST A. FLOYER. 
Cairo, June 12, 1899. 
DEAR SIR Geant wa 
THE thre e trees, Ficus elastica, which I 2 ry year, 
and mes yielded 10} Ibs. of rubber, sold at 3s. 3d. per Ib., have 
been tapped again this spring. They yielded 51 TR of Tubbér 
the erii es Eom off being in tree No. 2, which is much over- 
grown by tr 0. 
I have pat oat this spring See A 000 Ficus, and hope in due 
time a rubber industry may be s 
ps y, 
(Signed) - ce A, FLOYER. 
