495 



Only to-da3^ a merchant was enquiring where a few tons of the 

 oil were to be had for shipment to America, and it is certain that 

 the oil would fctcli a ready sale v^^ere it procurable in large quanti- 

 ties especially at the present time: Ed 



Para Rubber-Seed Oil. 



{Extracts from Chemist and Druggist.) 



Attention is again called to this article of future commerce in 

 several papers owing to the shortage of linseed oil this year. The 

 amount of rubber seed in the Peninsula now practically wasted is very 

 large and some addition to the profit of the industry might certainly 

 be made from the seeds. On clean weeded estates, in the season it 

 should be possible to gather or sweep up the seed at a comparatively 

 small cost and supply it to the oil-mills, where it could be crushed 

 and the oil extracted, the residue being made into oil-cake. 



The great scarcity of linseed oil is causing much anxiety among 

 consumers. The paint trade has been making a large use of sub- 

 stitutes but for wagon sheet making, oilcloths, etc., nothing can take 

 the place of linseed. The present quotation for linseed is higher than 

 it has been for twenty years, and 100 per cent higher than this time 

 last year. The failure of the linseed crop and the occupation of many 

 of the mills in soy bean crushing seems to be the causes of this rise 

 in price (extract from chemist and Druggist, October I, 1910). Now it 

 seems would be the time to put Para seed oil on the market as a 

 substitute for linseed. The following quotations fromithe same journal 

 for will be of interest. 



OBITUARY. 



Dr. Melchior Treub. 



By the death of Dr. Treub the world loses its greatest tropical 

 agriculturist and administrator of cultural establishments, and we 

 could not pass over the death of one who has done so much for 

 agriculture in the East without expressing our sense of the sad loss 

 of so great a man. Dr. Treub was born at Voorschoten, near Leyden, 

 on December, the 26th 185 1, and after completing his undergraduate 

 career was appointed assistant in the Botanical Institute of the 

 University of Leyden, in 18/4, and in 1880 was appointed to the 

 Directorship of the Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg, (being then only 

 29 years of age), succeeding Dr. Scheffer. 



Through his energy and perseverance he raised the position of 

 the Buitenzorg Gardens to the highest rank of any gardens in the 

 world. Aided by a sympathetic government and his own great powers 

 of administration he developed the economic functions of the esta- 

 blishment to the utmost, increasing the area under cultivation, and the 

 staff, and adding the finest Botanical Laboratories in the world. He 

 persuaded his Government to provide special laboratory accom- 

 modation for foreign workers, a very large number of whom came to 



