. India rubber world. et that the attempts which have been made during thelast three years to perfect this system of coagulation have notbeen fruitless. An elaborate feast accompanied the planting of several rubbertrees in honor of all the national authorities, and a visit waspaid to the Dafundo Rubber plantation in tlie neighborhood ofthe city of Para. The delegates also paid a visit to the agricultural colony ofSao Joa do Prata. under the direction of monks who had beeninstructing the wild Indians and educating their children. An-other visit was paid to the Eremita rubber plantation and rice
. India rubber world. et that the attempts which have been made during thelast three years to perfect this system of coagulation have notbeen fruitless. An elaborate feast accompanied the planting of several rubbertrees in honor of all the national authorities, and a visit waspaid to the Dafundo Rubber plantation in tlie neighborhood ofthe city of Para. The delegates also paid a visit to the agricultural colony ofSao Joa do Prata. under the direction of monks who had beeninstructing the wild Indians and educating their children. An-other visit was paid to the Eremita rubber plantation and ricefactory, a wxll equipped establishment of great prospective a visit was paid to the Experimental Station of the Staf November 1, 1913.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 59 of Para, and Dr. J. Teixeira delivered a lecture on theeconomic value of machinery and modern implements in theexploitation of the agricultural Still later all wentto the plantation of the Moju Rubber Plantations and Improve-. If appearances are worth anything, the trees seen at this plan-tation were the best that the Congressmen were shown in theirseveral trips. In closing the Congress, His Excellency the Governor andI-ady Eneas Martins held a reception at their private residentialpalace in honor of the Congressmen, and on the day Fcrreira Teixeira delivered a very scholarly address, whichwas enthusiastically cheered, and His the Governor,in an eloquent appeal to the members of the Congress to continueto work for the same ideals which had brought them together,very clearly stated that upon the attitude of the people of the.\mazons depended the future of this region. All sliowed an inclination to act and to work, and the proofthat the Federal Government meant to respond to this attitudelay in the fact that a Parliamentary committee had been ap-pointed to consider whether the laws already passed to assistilie rubber industry could be supplemented to advantage.
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