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Title: India rubber world
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Rubber industry and trade
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Bill Brothers Publishing Corp.)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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apore it will shortly come, nearly all ofit, for disposal in an open market, which will be of the utmostimportance to the United States of America. PLANTING IN THE PHILIPPINES. It has been recently suggested to me by an American that Ishould go to the Philippines with a view of encouraging the plant-ing industry there. This can only be done by attracting capitalthere from America, and I think that the only way to do thiswould be to go straight to headquarters in New York. I havestudied and planted cocoanuts for many years, and recently pri-vate capital was raised for cocoanut planting in a carefully se-lected region in East Malaya, on a large scale, based on my esti-mates. I am convinced, however, that cocoanuts in the Philip-pines, if properly planted and administered, would do extremelywell, and would bring in as much revenue in the future asrubber; i. e., about 20 per cent, to 25 per cent. Certain parts of the South Philippine Islands are very suitable ACRtS POUNOS Planted Produced
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iNiJ/AN OCEAN ToTAV, »^5i0, ooo r&K., 192, ooo VMl « <Q THE INDIA RUBBEHWOftlBDEC. laia. M..\r Showing Sing.^pores Centh,\l Position in E.vstern Rubber Production, Present Acreage and Estimated Yield for 1913. Java, 60.000 acres in Borneo, and some 30,000 acres elsewhere.The Java areas are very uncertain and inaccurate, and containmany thousands of acres of odd lots—Fi<:i(.f, Castilloa, Ceara, etc.,—which are of no earthly use here commercially. Few of theJava properties are of any value at all as rubber estates, beingmainly coffee, tea. and tobacco estates, with some rubber. Out-side of possibly 60,000 acres, no one considers Java seriously, asthe yield of the best is none too good there, tho labor is verycheap. Deducting the 300,000 acres in Southern India and Ceylon, the for rubber, so that any American manufacturing company whichwould like to have its own plantation would do well to startthere. RUBBER PL.WTING IN CENTR.VL .-XMERICA. I believe that a good deal of Am

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