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Entries for Horses and Dogs close on July 30th and in all other 

 Divisions on August 8th. 



For Prize Lists, entry forms, etc., etc., application should be 

 made to any of the following : — 



The Collector of Land Revenue, Penang. 

 The Hon : The Resident Councillor, Malacca. 

 The Supt. Government Plantation, Taiping, Perak. 

 The Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, Selangor. 

 The Collector of Land Revenue, Seremban. 

 The District Officer, Pekan, Pahang, or to 



T. W. MAIN, 

 Hon : General Secretary, 

 Singapore. 



VARIETIES OF RUBBER. 



(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) 



The interest taken at the present time by the British public in 

 rubber is very great, yet it is remarkable how little the public really 

 knows about the article. Rubber is now a fairly safe topic for 

 conversation anywhere. In the hotel smoke-room or a railway 

 carriage, with men or with women, one can start a rubber conversa- 

 tion and find that almost every casual acquaintance can talk glibly 

 of the prices of the different plantation companies' shares, of acreage 

 and cost per acre, trees and yield per tree from the fourth to the 

 tenth year ; and, in fact, any one whose business is entirely in the 

 raw article itself can almost begin to think that he knows nothing 

 about the subject. 



But he can readily have his revenge, if he can get his acquaint- 

 ance to pay a visit to the City and take him into a sample room of 

 one of the brokers or merchants, where the astonished rubber-share 

 expect would see raw rubber laid out for sale in the various forms in 

 which it arrives — for raw rubber varies in value from lOs. 6Md. per 

 lb. for smoked sheet down to is. 2d. per lb., for Niger flake, and in 

 between these two prices it would be possible to lind a grade of 

 rubber to answer to nearly every penny. 



CREPE. SHEET. AND BISCUIT RUBBER. 



Rubber reaches the home market in almost every possible shape 

 and colour. In most cases the queer names which one reads in 

 the market reports are fairly descriptive. Thin pale crepe, for ins- 

 tance, arrives in long strips, generally about 4ft. long and Sin. to I2in. 

 broad. It varies in thickness from one sixteenth to half an inch, and 

 has a roughish surface from which the name " crepe is derived 



