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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUJ1, UTAH To 1 Get Rubber in ines two Acres Suitable fc How Raising Trees 500,000 Product Is Treated. Burma or the Washington. From end of a lead pen-d- l wo to the other scboolhouse In the red little hi a but rnited States Is a long, stretch, substance This rubber has made it. school boy to snap that enables the has made Goldilocks at wads aper taken Its maker of Industry Is looking for new history. fields not controlled by foreign powers. States Department of The United out on an Commerce, In a report just of the poexhaustive investigation archipof the Philippine value tential the elago for crude rubber, expresses is production that profitable opinion automobiles possible and has oil as a dace with coal and possible there. The reports hold that under favoraannual maximum an ble conditions could be protons 70,000 of output duced in the islands, In the southern 1,500,-00portion of which approximately acres are suitable for rubber rais-IpThe report marks the comIn the depletion of another stage world-widof the survey partments rubber situation, started 13 months the ago at the instance of congress and trades, when it became apparent that the legalized restriction of the plantation rubber output in British possessions might menace American consumers. In recent months high rubber industprices, feared by the American ry at the outset of the British restriction program, have been realized. The 70,000-topotential Philippine output would compare with an annual import now of 340,000 tons by the United . 0 g. e n States. Juice Known as Latex. nature planted the rubber tree tropics she endowed man richly., Most people think rubber comes from the sap of the tree just as does maple sirup. Instead it is a sticky, milky Juice of the tree flowing through surface cells just beneath the bark. It is known as latex and nourishes the tree through the latex system, according to a statement by the American Nature association of Washington. There are more than one hundred ttees throughout the tropical belt encircling the world that produce juice that will make rubber. It, however, is a somer what property. Some of the trees in the four groups generally credited with producing caoutchouc do not live up to the family tradition, while other outside lands do possess When in the helter-skelte- the property. A quarter century ago the world drew its rubber from the native forests. Wasteful methods prevailed and the world commenced to roll about in horseless carriages with soft tires. Demand leaped forward with the en- couragement of custom, discovery and Invention. Thus the Twentieth century has seen forestry principles ap- to rubber-tre- e plantations set out, rotation of crops Invoked, and an agricultural order brought Into rubber production that eventually must find its way Into Americas timber-producin-g areas. Various Trees Produce Rubber. To the valley of the Amazon and the commercially known Para rubber Is generally accorded the palm for superiority. In the lowlands, hot with steam of tropic sun and river courses, Hevea braziliensis prospers often to 60 feet in height and grows with two or three near relatives, all of whom are plied rich producers of rubber. In Brazil a . smaller tree produces Cerea rubber when It has reached two years of age. In Guiana species of Hevea guayenis and paucifolia provide the rubber yield while the Pernambuco rubber comes from a small drooping tree possessing a somewhat inferior rubber quality.' Much of the rubber coming into the United States originates with a relative of the breadfruit tree. This rubber tree is Castiiloa elastica, native of Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Central America. This tree grows to considerable height and often readies three feet around the trunk. In Malaya. Siam, Burma, Ceylon and other tropical states grows the rubber-fig- , Ficus elastica, but the transplanted Para rubber trees of Brazil have made this section of importance in the world. Africa has its Funtumia elastica of the Ivory coast and the Congo, a tail, erect tree giving a kind of rubber known as Lagos . silk. There are other lesser centers and other interesting trees, for nature has widely distributed her largess of rubber. Get Seedlings From Nurseries. Methods of cultivating rubber plantations differ as well as processes of gathering. A rubber plantation Is created much as a forest-tre- e plantation would be. Nurseries' are maintained for the production of seedling rubber trees, raised from seed. The seed of the Para rubber tree, which may be accepted as the most truly representative of its large coterie of fellows. Is a mottled brown, somewhat like a chestnut though larger. It is enclosed' in a pod and drops out as the hull cracks. In the better plantations care is exercised in selecting the seed for the nursery. The youthful trees sprout quickly and are soon ready for transplanting. In rows of about two hundred trees to an acre the leafy sources of our rubber supply climb upward, and in the case of Para rubber are ready to produce their first small crop at the end of five years. Meanwhile, care has been taken to keep down weeds and to cut out the trees that do not live up to the promise of the seed. When 20 inches around at 3 feet from the ground the tree can start to serve and go on serving for several decades if the good nature of the trees Is not imposed upon by too much tapping or by disease allowed to attack them from lack of care. Tapping Is, then, an important episode in the life of the rubber tree. It is a science that the natives have long practiced, an In which they have gained remarkable deftness. It Is also something about which the cultivator Is still learning. Must Be Tapped Properly. A daily call upon the rubber tree and wide slashes upon its skin are giving way to alternate tapping and more restricted slashing. Tapping is an early morning act, beginning at daylight and stopping by nine in the morning. A thin shaving of bark is taken off diagonally across a varying part of the trees circumference with a sharp tool like a furriers blade. It requires deftness and care, for. a cut too deep exposes the tree to disease, and one cut too thin Impedes the flow of juice. There are variations In tapping incisions. but they all seek to reach the valuable latex to free It so that it will gather in the porcelain cups at the lower end of the incision. The properly tapped tree will heal quickly, but Just how long plantation trees will live and yield under scientific and careful handling is still in the realm of conjecture. Time has not yet been long enough to allow conclusions. Once the rubber tree had yielded up the gift that nature, stored within It. man turned his Inventive genius to transform it From the porcelain rubber-producin- g cups the sticky fluid is emptied into milk cans, dusky natives gathering the lemon-colore- d half-inc- h nature-econom- ic water-proofin-g today. Nature stored her wealth to man In many strange places. Like coal oil and other treasures, she takes care that man has to expend much hard labor' to turn her wonders to his use. Recruits Start for the Oriental Posts deck port ship end ow Some of the new troops on the of the United States army trans- Chateau Thierry, just before the sailed from New York for China the Far East. to be stationed, on duty there. . WN NERVOUS, DIZZY sky. For the market the Tara rubber Is prepared In several forms. The more crude method of making biscuits biscuits of crude rich brown, rubber still prevails somewhat, particularly In Brazil. A wooden paddle dipped In the fluid, held over the smoke of burning leaves, dipped again and again, gradually acquires its rubber biscuit Three Forms of Preparation. Newer practices, the American Nature association points out have Improved the handling. There are three main forms of preparation, smoked sheet thin pale crepe and thick pale crepe. The first looks for all the world like the good old black molasses candy. It ha3 its thickness of about a quarter Inch, its rich blackness and shiny surface, but it smells something like bacon. It lias been coagulated by a smoke bath, and on it the various plantations generally stamp their particular brand. Tlie thin pale crepe Is about the thickness and color of flannel. The thick pale crepe would pass for tripe in any company with thickits lemon tinting, and ness. A chemical, usually acetic acid, is used to hasten coagulation and the heavier mass, after straining and mixing the acid, is milled and pressed into one or the other of the crepe forms. After a brief drying it is ready to be baled and shipped off to the myriad factories waiting to turn it into tires, tubes, bathing caps, erasers, rubber bands, balloons, and a thousand and one other things. French explorers of early days made special studies of rubber. Nevertheless It was regarded mainly as a curiosity for a long time. Native products came from the colonies in South America, and haphazard experiment It went on in several Latin countries. was in England, however, that the first success at manufacture was won, and an interesting page in history written. After failure of a patent in 1771 for cloth with a thin layer of melted rubber, and the collapse for want of proper machinery of an at tempt to weave strips of rubber, Charles Macintosh, of Glasgow, in 1823, obtained a patent and started making cloth with rubber between two layers of fabric. He gave his name to this type of material, and so it is known today. About the same time Thomas Hancock was experimenting and making successfaliy articles using the elasticity of rubber. Vulcanized Rubber Discovered. Early attempts to manufacture rubber In the United States were made during the first forty years of the Nineteenth century. They were not very successful, although Nathaniel Hay ward, experimenting with the rpbber stock in a Woburn (Mass.) factory that had failed, worked out a process of treatmixing rubber with sulphur, and ing it with acid gas fumes. Charles Goodyear, of Connecticut, had previously figured out a similar method but neither were entirely satisfactory. Goodyear purchased the Hayward rights and set about to devote his for tune and his life to taming rubber. It is told that he had made a. mixture of rubber with sulphur and was discussing it with friends one cold night in the kitchen. A piece of rubber in door of the his hand hit the red-hkitchen stove. It stuck to the stove and hardened without melting. Goodyear excitedly got a knife, scraped the lump from the stove and washed It He had discovered vulcanized rubber and forged the link that connected rubber with the thousands of uses It has RUN-DO- WEAK, run under tropic suns, much as far cnorth Vermonters gather maple sap under the cold blue of an early spring (. If you 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) want to bo continuously happy, you must learn when to bo deaf, when to bo dumb and when to be blind. 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