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Show HOW RUBBER PLANT HELPS MOZAMBIQUE WASHINGTON. SepL 15. Tapped once a year and then bled for all obtainable, landolphia, the pride of the African rubber rub-ber gatherers, pierced with a series of long blazes and the resulting flow rushed to the coast In "spilt sausages" bids fair to brlnp fame and fortune to Mozambique. Mozam-bique. There for half a century rubber has been exploited commercially, but Consul Con-sul Chamberlain at Lourenco Marquez reports re-ports great developments probable Landolphia Lan-dolphia flourishes In tho Portuguese South African forests, attains the thickness of a nian's arm, bears rubber when it scores half an inch in diameter, grows well from a slip and flows freely after tho rainy season The consul's report is exhaustive, especially es-pecially in throwing light on the way the different subber yielding species arc treated. "The latox of the funtumla, both on the gold coast and in Lagos," he suggests, "is coagulated by means of heat, being diluted with water and placed In an earthenware pot heated by a fire till the fluid coagulate?. The lattox of the two vines is coagulated in the same way, though that of the landolphia owarlensis often coagulates spontaneously." Deputy Consul General Koot at Rotterdam Rotter-dam has reported an estimate that $33,-000.000 $33,-000.000 Is Invested In the Dutch East Indies In-dies rubber plantations. |