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SALES OF PRODUCE B BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL MARKETS. 



Fibres, Cotton, Grain, Oil Seeds, Hides and Skins, 

 Timber, Rubber, Drugs, Wool, Ores, Mica, Gums, Tea, 

 Cocoa, Coffee, Copra, Sugar, etc., are being regularly 

 dealt in; Keymer, Son & Co., being selling Agents for 

 Estates, Mills and Exporters. 



Samples valued. Best ports for Shipments indicated. 



The management of Estates undertaken. Capital found 

 for the development or purchase of valuable properties, 



KEYMER, SON & CO. , 

 Cables: Whitefriars, 

 KEYMER, LONDON. LONDON, E. C. 



(Same address since 1844). 



Sir, — Having just returned from West Africa, 

 where I was examining rubber, cacao ccffeeand 

 kola lands, 1 read with much appreciation the 

 ltt' er from Mr Stuart K Cope in your Satur- 

 day's i-sue upon the manuringof exhausted soils 

 and shou d like to support his please for green 

 manuring, In lands otherwise det-irable in every 

 way for rubber the one thing lacking has often 

 been nitrogen in sufficient quanti f y. Green 

 manuring ia now being tried upon such lands, 

 and there is reason to believe that the experi- 

 ment will become a practice. Wo ha^e not yet 

 tried "de?modium tortuosum," but shall be will- 

 ing to experiment with it if Mr C ope cares to 

 send a sample. — I am, &c, 



H. 0, Newland. 

 Cambiran Lodge, Knollys-road, Streatham 

 15 June. 

 — F. Times, June 17. 



THE RUBBER CONFERENCES AT 

 NEW YORK. 



At the tin t American Rubber Exposition, to 

 be held at the Grand Contral Palace, in New 

 York, next September, the conferences, it can 

 confidently bd stated, will play a most important 

 part. A number of those who contributed most 

 successfully to the valable work of the London 

 conferences will he in attendance, and, in addi- 

 tion, many who did not take part in London will 

 be present and participate actively in New York. 

 Many of the beet-known rubber men abroad will 

 be present and will bring important and valu- 

 able contributions, and many of the recognised 

 leaders in the rubber world of America have 



expressed their willingness to 'address the con- 

 ference. 



It might be thought, possibly, that men who 

 are engaged in experimental work would hesi- 

 tate to give publicity in this way to the result 

 of their researches and discoveries. Of course, 

 there are always a few men who think they are 

 the losers if they impart any information of 

 value that has come to them through their own 

 experience, but these men are in the minority. 

 It is safe to say that most of the leading men 

 in the rubber industry take a very broad view 

 of this great department of human activity, and 

 are very glad to contribute to its general ad- 

 vancement in any way they can. Rubber men 

 who attend the New York Rubber Exposition 

 may rest assured that they will not only see the 

 most interesting collection of the physical pro- 

 ducts of the rubbor world, hut will be able, by 

 attending the conferences, to carry away with 

 them a great fund of new and valuable rubber 

 knowledge. 



Notes of tub Papers, 



Mr. Cyril E S Baxendale has been appointed 

 by the planters of the Federated Malay States, 

 and will read a paper in connection with the 

 rubber industry of that country. 



Dr- Frederic Dannerth has accepted the posi- 

 tion of Honorary Secretary of the Conference. 



F. A. Stockdale, Esq., Hon. Secretary of the 

 Permauent Exhibition Committee of British 

 Guiana, will have a paper read in reference to 

 the rubber industry in British Guiana. 



T. W. Miller, Esq., of the Faultless Rubber 

 Co., will read a paper on dipped rubber goods. 



