The Supplement to the Tropical Agriculturist 



All rubber before being tendered must have 

 been passed by the Arbitration Committee, and 

 the award will remain in force for three months 

 provided the cases have been left intact at the 

 original public warehouse. Samples to be arbi- 

 trated upon must be freshly drawn dock or 

 wharf samples, and delivered intact to the first 

 selling broker, but in the case of any lot which 

 has been included in the last public sale pre- 

 ceding the date of tender the dock or wharf 

 samples shown at that time shall be sufficient 

 if reasonably intact. These samples must be 

 sent to the Arbitration Committee not later 

 than 12o'clock on the eighth working day before 

 the end of the period of delivery, with liberty 

 to the seller to make one replacement of any 

 quantity rejected by the Committee within two 

 days of receiving notice of rejection (provided 

 that in the opinion of the Committee the samples 

 submitted to them was a bona fide submission 

 for tendering) and notwithstanding that by 

 reason of such rejection and replacement the 

 seller would, but for this provision, be out of 

 time to make his tender. 



Tenders to be good must contain the following 

 information : — 



Date of contract and price. 



Date of original tender. 



Marks and numbers of packages with approxi- 

 mate weights. 



Ship's name and dock or wharf where rubber 

 is lying. 



Weight of samples, 



Reference number of award and date when 

 passed by the Arbitration Committee. 



First selling broker's name at whose office 

 the samples are lying, 



Description of rubber. 



Date of prompt. 



Rubber to be tenderablo in the original cases 

 bearing its original shipping marks as shipped 

 from the place of production. 



The stipulations in this rule shall be deemed 

 to be of the essence of the contract. 



Clause III. — An Arbitratian Committee com- 

 posed of six. brokers and/or associates, members 

 of the General Produce Brokers' Association 

 of London, shall be appointed annually by 

 the trade to deal with all disputes ; three to 

 form a quorum, with power to the parties in 

 dispute to appeal to the Committee of the 

 General Produce Brokers' Association of London , 

 according to their Rules. 



Clause IV. — When a parcel of rubber is sold 

 under the standard description of " first Latex 

 Hevea Brasiliensis Plantation Rubber of fair 

 average quality, in sheet and/or biscuit and/or 

 crepe form as at present prepared " for a 

 special shipment or for shipment by a specified 

 steamer, and found inferior, or if any portion 

 tendered be found inferior, buyers shall have 

 the option of rejection, and the quantity so rejec- 

 ted, whether the whole or any portion, shall not 

 constitute a delivery on the contract, but should 

 the time for delivery have expired, the seller 

 shall be allowed three clear working days to 

 replace the quantity rejected (provided that the 

 delivery of such quantity was in the opinion of 

 the arbitrators a bona fide tender), otherwise 

 Clause IX. (f ) of the Rules of the General Pro- 

 duce Brokers' Association of London to apply. 



Clause V. — When a parcel of rubber is sold 

 with a guarantee of quality other than as 

 specified in Clauses II. and IV., for a specified 

 shipment or delivery, or for shipment by a 

 specified steamer, and found inferior, or if 

 any portion tendered be found inferior, the 

 buyer must accept the same with an allow- 

 ance, provided such allowance in the opinion of 

 tho arbitrators be not more than 2d. (two pence) 

 per lb. or otherwise as may be specified in the 

 contract, but should the parcel, or any portion 

 tendered, be rejected, the seller to have the 

 option (provided that it was in the opinion of 

 the arbitrators a bona fide tender) of substi- 

 tuting guaranteed quality on the spot, to fulfil 

 his contract within three (3) clear working days, 

 or the expiration of time for delivery as the 

 case may be, otherwise Clause IX. (f) of the 

 Rules of the General Produce Brokers' Associa- 

 tion of London to apply. 



Clause VI.— Any claims under these clauses 

 (and a copy of the objections must be sent to 

 the parties interested) must be made by the last 

 buyer to the first selling broker within (3) three 

 clear working days of the last buyer receiving 

 tender, and the first seller shall consider this 

 as being in time, providing tenders have been 

 passed on without undue delay. 



Clause VII. — Delivery Weight. — Final deli- 

 very on any delivery or shipment contract to be 

 within 50 lb. of the weight contracted for. 

 Clause VIII. — In the event of there being more 

 than one contract subsisting between the 

 same patties which shall be closed in pursu- 

 ance of Clause XI. of the conditions of sale 

 of tho General Produce Brokers' Association of 

 London, an account shall be taken of what is 

 due from the one party to the other in respect 

 of such contracts, and the sum due from the 

 one party shall be set off against any sum due 

 from the other party, and the balance of the 

 account and no more shall be claimed or paid 

 on either side respectively. 



Clause IX,— The selling or buying broker 

 guarantees the solvency of his principals in all 

 contracts for rubber unless otherwise specified 

 in the contract. — India Rubber Journal, Oct. 14. 



THE SOIL AND THE PLANT. 



Dr. E J. Russell, of Rothamsted Experi- 

 mental Stating, has a paper in "Science Pro- 

 gress " reviewing some recent American hypo- 

 theses which seem to upset several established 

 points as to soil. Dr Russell, aEter a careful 

 examination, arrives at the following conclusion 

 which indicates the differences as well: — 



The outstanding differences between Whit- 

 ney's hypotheses and those more generally accep- 

 ted may therefore be reduced to three : 



(1) Whitney supposes all soils to be chemi- 

 cally alike in that all are made up of the same 

 rock material ; consequently the soil solution is 

 the same in all cases. Other chemists, on the 

 other hand, consider that the soil is more com- 

 plex, containing colloidal decomposition pro- 

 ducts and a solution which not only differs in 

 composition in different soils but also shows 

 local variations in composition in different parts 

 of the same soil. 



