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Show NEW RUBBER TREE IS GREAT PRODUCER Washington, Sept. 15 Tapped onco a year and then bled for all obtainable, landolpbln, the pride of the African rubber gatherers, pierced with a series of long blades and the resulting ..mv rushed to the const In "split sausages," bids fair to brlug fame and fortune to Mozambique. There for hair a century cen-tury rubber has been exploited commercially, com-mercially, but Consul Chamberlain, at Lourenco Marques, reports great developments de-velopments probable. Landolpbln flourishes in the Portuguese South African Af-rican forests, attains the thickness of a man's arm, bears rubber when It scores half an inch In diameter, grow s well from a slip and Hows most freely after the rainy season. The consul's report Is exhaustive especially in throwing light on tho way the different rubltcr-yleldlng spo-cles spo-cles are treated. "The lalox of the funtumla, both oa the Gold Coast and In Lagos." ho writes, "Is coagulated by moans oC heat, being diluted with" water and placed In an earthenware pot heated by a tire till the fl;ld coagulates. Tho latox of the two lons is coagulated la the same way, though that of landol-phla landol-phla owarknsls oiton coagulates spontaneously." spon-taneously." Deputy Consul General Root of Rotterdam Rot-terdam has reported an estimate that $33,000.0011 s invested In the Dutch East Indies' rubber plantations. |