To the Editor of the "Norra-Crna Dairy News."
Sm,—With your permission I should like to reply to "Secretary's"" criticism of my previous letter' en this subject.
He wishes to know "how J arrived at the F.M.S. production'?
I took Messrs. Anderson & Co.'s report and added the column "estimated output for present financial year" filling in blanks from "output last year' columna—this gave me a total of 18,865,447 Ib. Knowing this figure represented the entire output in which this part of the world is concerned, I then turned to Messrs. Fraser & Co.'s Singapore report, having th idea. and I think with reason, that it would represent correctly the output from that part of the rubber world of which Singapore is the centre.
Adding their October output column and multiplying the total by 12, I got a total of 45,859,692 Ib., and a combined grand total of 64,725,189 lb.—working with the short ton of 2,000 Ib. I got 32,362 tons but when I deducted from the Shanghai total the amount rubber produced in Java calculated the balance in long tons I had a total of 28,895 tons. Splitting the difference between the two lots of figures I called it roughly 30,000 tons, which as far as the two reports go is perfectly correct, therefore Messrs. Anderson and Fraser need neither apologies from me nor sympathy from "Secretary."
I further said that it made no difference to my argument if this underestimated the output, nor does it, I merely referred to the F.M.S. as one community of rubber growers, by way of illustrating that no single community could overcome the difficulty alone.
did not propose, as "Secretary" knows perfectly well, "that the F.M.S. should stop production for a year."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.