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knows it, ar d can, in consequence, understand 

 his wants. In a report addressed to Messrs. 

 .burroughs Wellcome & Co., M. Farmau empha- 

 sises ihis at d indicate* at the samu time the 

 utility of anothtr accomplishment, namely a 

 knowledge of hrst-aid. 



" 1 am happy to know," he reportp, " that 

 you ate using the Esperanto language for your 

 commerce, and 1 beg to congratulate you. As 

 I have often said before I find it is very necess- 

 ary for every aviator to have with him one of 

 your ' Tabloid ' Mrst Aid cases, and to know 

 Esperanto. With these two he can go any- 

 where Fortunately I can say that I have not 

 yet had a serious accidtnt, but working on the 

 various apparatus, 1 have hurt myselt several 

 times, and was then glad to use the ' Tabloid' 

 case which sives much valuable time. It is 

 very necessary for aviators who go to all coun- 

 tries to know Esperanto and to possess a ' Tab- 

 loid ' case for first-aid. In this way he can go 

 anywhere and be his own master. This is the 

 advice which I give always from my heart to 

 the novice aviators in my schools, for although 

 it happens very seldom that aviators injure 

 themselves seriously on my machines, notwith- 

 standing their very large number, yeb it is 

 wiser to exercise toresignt." 



RUBBER IN SOUTH COORG. 



Weathek and Planting. 

 Pollibetta, July 24. — A spell of heavy wet wea- 

 ther set on the 19th instant, since when, al- 

 though the heaviest fall recorded io the 24 hours 

 was over 3 in. and on every occasion more than 

 an inch, yet the rainfall is lighter than is usual 

 at this time of year. Both coffee and rubber are 

 in very good heart. Most estates are through with 

 the destruction of borer, and now attention is 

 being paid to weeding, and work in connection 

 with the filling up of vacancies. Lt is to be noted 

 that "stump rot" is more severe in fields of rub- 

 ber than in the coffee. This may be due to the 

 rubber roots penetrating more deeply and com- 

 ing in contact with large decaying roots which 

 would be out of reach of coffee roots. — M. Mail. 



RUBBER IN UGANDA IN 1910-11. 



The following particulars respecting the trade 

 ©f the Uganda Protectorate for the year ended 

 31st March, 1911, have been taken from the re- 

 port by Mr. G, D. Smith, Treasurer and Chief 

 of Customs,, Entebbe : — 



There was a decrease in wild rubber owing to 

 the trees being rested for several months to- 

 wards the end of the year. The first export of 

 plantation rubber was made during the year 

 under review; it was of the Ceara variety, and 

 Was tapped from trees about three years old, 

 and fetched 8s. a lb., with best Para rubber 

 at 8s. lOd. to 9s. The Ceara variety of rubber 

 is being largely planted and shows every sign 

 of being successful. — Bo^rd of J'rade Journal, 

 May 30, 



FAILURE OF COCOA VALORISATION. 



In his report on the trade of Ba ia for 1911, 

 Mr Consul W H M Sinclair refers to the failure 

 of the cocoa valorisation scheme. He states 

 that a scheme was moottd in the course of the 

 year to briug about a system of valorisation in 

 the cocoa trade similar to that which is in oper- 

 ation in the case of coffee, in the State of Sao 

 Paulo. It was proposed that the cocoa planters 

 of Pahia should act together with those of the 

 Portuguese colonies and of Ecuador to neutra- 

 lise the effects of speculation in the European 

 markets. The main features of the scheme were 

 that the cocoa should be exported to Lisbon 

 and stored there, the price to be controlled by 

 persons appointed by those interested in the 

 countries mentioned. The Babia cocoa crop 

 was held up while a congress discussed this 

 project at Bahia in October. It, however, got 

 no further than the stage of diccust.ioii. In the 

 first place the originators of the scheme exag- 

 gerated th6 proportion of the world's supply 

 contributed by the countries in question, set- 

 ting it at 75 instead of 50 per cent. Secondly, 

 cocoa cannot be stored for more than a very 

 limited period without deteriorating, unlike 

 coffee, which is the better for keeping. Thirdly, 

 the financial difficulties were insuperable. A 

 final blow was dealt to the congress by the circu- 

 lation of a report that the crop from the Portu- 

 guese colonies was being put on the market and 

 fetching a good price in the absence of other 

 supplies.—//. & C Mail, June 14, 



BHAIO MANUFACTURES HAVE 

 IMMENSE PROFITS. 



Promising Industry That Would Meet 

 Favour in Markets of the World. 



The Philippine Islands are weak in their pre 

 duction of braid hats. The islands, however, 

 produce no braid tor hats which in the world's 

 trade is of much more importance than the hats 

 themselves. 



One thousand per cent of the present plaid 

 braids, of straw, b»st, chips, and numerous 

 other materials are manufactured in Switzer- 

 land, Germany, France, Japan and China, and 

 other parts of the world. 



Fully ninety per cent of the straw hats worn 

 in the Philippine Islands are made locally and 

 all the braid made for them is imported from 

 foreign countries. 



The cause for this is not because materials 

 do not exist here in large numbers and in great 

 variety, but that the people do not realise the 

 value of these materials nor the profits to be 

 made from braidiDg. The local field for ordi- 

 nary straw braids from which the common 

 straw hats worn by men are made is very large. 



There is also an even greater field for making 

 braids for the export trade pertaining princi- 

 pally to women's hats. It has been said that 

 there is nothing too fantastic and bizarre for a 

 woman, to wear on her hat, 



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