Frank R. Henderson, president. New York Rubber Exchange, last week accepted as fact a report of vast latex* production from rubber trees cultured in the Dutch East Indies. Buds of exceptional rubber trees had been grafted into trees that normally yielded but three or four pounds of rubber a year. After bud grafting the trees, by report, began to yield enormously, in some cases 100 pounds a year. At such report Arthur A. Judd, writer for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, scoffed: "The exchange president's report on the outcome of the experiment smacks...
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