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Show About Rubber. H The cultivation of rubber trees Is on H the Increase, and rubber may at no H distant timo becomo entire) a planta- H tlon product. Says an editorial writer H in The Electrical Ilevlcw (New York, H January 10), noting a recent report of H the U. S. consul at Illo Janeiro: "It H Is said that there aro In Ceylon over ,H 100,000 acres which have been planted H in rubber, and In tho Malay peninsula H about half as much more. It Is estl- mated that Mexico has about 100,000 IH acres planted In rubber, making In all t about 275,000 acres, which should pro- ', duco before long about one-quarter of H tho world's probable consumption. H Tho results from these plantations H seem to have been so successful that "5 H tho work might be enlarged, as this H would not only rendor us less depend- H ent upon tho natural forests, but H would stimulate the Brazilian rubber- IH producing states to begin artificial H cultivation there." IH |