The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-01

And perhaps o failed TO look ior
missionaries" rejoined the domini".
Well, there are missionaries down
here in Malaysia and IN China. Japan
and Korea, ana the g1ObetrOtter, "ho
does not contine himself to the ports
cannot fail to see them ii h keeps
his eyes open. / have already writ
ten about their work in Korea ami
China. They are doing much i'll
Siam, and those of the PrOteStantS
alone in India have more than a mil
lion natives who are processing
Christianity. They have something
like 5000 Sunday schools going, ana
there are almost 100000 pupils in
THEN ordinary day schools. As 10
medical missions, they are doing great
good everywhere, the number of pa
'tients treated last year in India alone
being over 1000 600. There arr
something like 900 mission hospitals
IN Asia, Africa and Oceanica, and
altogether there is q Protestant Chris
tan population among those Of tn
worlds nations We consider as heath
ems OF more than six millions.
Fortunes in Rubbc
The enormous demand for rubber
Tor automobile tires, bicycle tires and
other things bids fair to enrich This
part OF the world. The jungle is o1-
ing cut down and covered with rUh-
Der plants. The Sultan OF Joh"re
h-"A' JAci olb lis IuDD'1 ciuD &t '''
- a pound. and his plantations ha%1
yielded two pounds TO the tree.
am told he has 100 trees to the a"r1
and that he owns thousands OF acres.
At this rate his profit is over St. 100
an acre per annunl.
II this is true. it is no wonder -t-it
capital is pouring into Singapore ,or
rubber Investments. Scores of plan
tatloTS are being set ont, and SOM
thing like 200. 900 acres Of groves ht<~
already been established. som 90
the companies have paid diFidel'F
OF as high as 500 per cent. while ~
per cent IS by no means uncommph'
The plants used are those which nf"-
ducn the Para rubber, the trees com
ms INTO bearing at their fifth or &iS'ti
year. They are then tapped. and u
carefully bied Will continue to pro
duce for many years.
The Lands of Pepper.
1t is from this same region tat tn'
greater part Of our pepper comes.
lherc are pepper estates in Mal3%1Ht
ana IN SuTnatra over the W.. ia
lact, this country was first desired ~
england on 0 OF its shipments
OF pepper. Plantations were acau;re''
by some London commissioners, "h"
demanded that moro and more pep
per be sent. They knew so littl'
aoout now pepper grows that they
asked their agentS to see that the ma
tVes planted more white pepper it
me Iuture. as their customers prefer
red that to black pepper. Now ever
one VINO knows anything about pep
per knows that the white pepper an"
piack pepper come from the sam"
bushes and that white pepper -
merely black pepper we'll ripened.
shortly after that letter came thr
amount OF silver belonging 10 the
in the Singapore office was
snort, and in writing about it 10 Lon
ooil the agent. D~reSun1ing on the ~
hoTance OF the people there. said that
me denclency was Tue to the raVaSes
o. the white ants. With their next
Shipment the London commissioners
sent a basket OF files. and when tho
agent wrote asking what they were
or, the reply was that they were q
the teeth OF those ants.
ne exporters here say that there q
sun money in pepper, but that for ths
ttfne the profits Of the rubber indus
try surpass those OF all other farming.