Gums, Resins, 



488 



December 1909. 



their first tapping period is much less 

 than in the other States, but this high 

 figure is interesting as pointing to the 

 averages which may be looked for in 

 trees after two or three years' tapping. 

 An interesting tapping experiment with 

 eight 17-year-old trees, growing round 

 the churchyard at Parit Buntar, in the 

 Krian district of Perak, has given after 

 one year's tapping every other day an 

 average of 28£ lb. of dry rubber per tree. 

 The average girth of the trees was 54 '87 

 inches at three feet from the ground, 

 and they had been growing in unweeded 

 land containing lalang and other grasses. 

 Comparative Tables op Rubber 

 Crops, Malaya, 1907 and 1908. 



Number'of trees Rubber 

 tapped. yields. 

 State. 1907. 190P. 1907.1b. 



Selangor« ... 772,656 ...1,172,383 ...1,131,086 



State. 



Perak a ... 132,556 



Negri Sembilan« 240,401 

 Pahang a ... — 

 Malaccas ... 12,455 

 Province Welles- 

 ley & ... 48,000 

 Johore ... 94,159 

 Kelantan ... — 



251,613 

 306,376 



56,846 



65,100 

 101,772 



272,804 

 586,864 



34,490 



82,131 

 182,495 



Kubber Yields. 

 1908 

 lb. 



Average yield per tree. 



Selangor a 

 Perak a 



Negri Sembilan a 

 Pahang a 

 Malacca b 

 Province Welles- 



leyb 

 Johore 

 Kelantan 



Total 



1.846,384 

 383,073 

 963,253 



52,980 



92,600 

 201,632 



1907 

 lb, 



1 



•2 



oz. 



n 

 i 



1908 

 lb. oz. 



1 91*5 

 1 83 

 3 2J 



14 — 



11 



15 



1 15| 



3,539,922 



In Province Wellesley is included two 

 estates in Singapore, eight estates in 

 Penang, and five estates in Kodah. 



Total 



1,300,227 1,954,090 2,278,870 



aP.M.S, 



OILS AND FATS. 



POSSIBILITIES OF COTTONSEED OIL. 



CProm the Indian Agriculturist, Vol. 



XXXIV., No. 9, September 1, 1909.) 



In the course of an article in the 

 Cottonseed Oil Magazine, U. S. A,, 

 Mr. F. A. Southwick writes :— It was 

 stated by a speaker recently at the 

 Interstate Cotton Oil Convention that 

 cotton furnishes, among other things, 

 a not inconsiderable portion of our daily 

 food. This statement, while seeming 

 mere rhetoric, contains a large grain 

 of truth than would at first appear. 



It is well known that by far the larger 

 part of all the salad oil sold in this 

 country to-day is made from cottonseed 

 oil. Cottonseed oil enters largely into 

 medicinal preparations, and, in fact, 

 wherever an edible oil is used it is 

 pretty sure to be cottonseed oil. Cotton- 

 seed oil is replacing to a remarkable 

 extent the hog product for cooking and 

 baking, not only in tbe large wholesale 

 establishments, but in our homes and 

 kitchens as well, Probably the most 

 promising field for cottonseed oil is the 

 oleomargarine industry, provided that 

 industry could free itself from the 

 shackles cf adverse legislation, which 

 ostensibly placed on the statute books 



to protect the farmer and small dairy- 

 man, in reality operates to bolster up 

 the product of the "butter trust," robs 

 the farmer, cheats the government out 

 of millions per year in revenue, deceives 

 the people and is rapidly building up 

 a large and affluent class of moon-shiners, 

 who are the real pirates of the oleo- 

 margarine business. 



With commendable foresightthe recent 

 Interstate Convention placed itself on 

 record as favouring a repeal of the pre- 

 sent oleomargarine law, and it is to the 

 interest of every one in any way identi- 

 fied with the cotton oil industry to work 

 for that end, because if the consumption 

 of oleomargarine in America were allow- 

 ed to equal that of foreign countries, 

 where the only legislation is to prevent 

 it being sold for anything except what 

 it really is and under its own label, 

 it would mean a demand for cottonseed 

 oil more than double the present total 

 output. 



According to statistics the output for 

 last year of cottonseed oil in this country 

 was 1,200,000 barrels for domeetie con- 

 sumption. Had our consumption of 

 oleomargarine been even equal to the 

 little principality of Holland, which has 

 a population of a little over two million 



