Failure to Produce the Synthetic Article Present methods of rubber eultivation as a whole are satisfactory, it was said ina paper by Mr.
P. Stevens, consultant of the British Rubber Growers' Association of] London, read to-day at the concluding session of the two-day] symposium on crude rubber held in with the American al Society convention, radical alterations are to be looked for in the production of] plantation rubber in the future." he said. "The most to be expected is improvement in the details of! preparation of sheet and crepe of] greater uniformity and freedom from mould spots and other defects."
Two important facts brought out at the symposium, in the opinion of chemists, were the cultivation of the Guayule shrubs as a source of America's future rubber supply and that science has not been able _to produce a synthetic rubber suitable for commercial purposes.—Reuter's American Service.
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