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)S-MONITOR, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1942Illegal Collectors ’AlmostDestroy Balatain Guiana*The Guianas, earliest v.-v.i- ce o’ balata, a rubber-like jsiubst.-uvc, exported. three to five railiiKi hounds annually from 1910 to V-•?. Moan-while British and E^utch clt;:U,;.-iis established regulations dlt;\-it:Mcd tc keep the trees allve.1 Tlvy banned-felling by the gum .vcolle.- b ; s _ unci, limited the extent -pt tnpxig and retapping.. They llcenVec! collectors and registered laborers Forest rangers and land officers paved the industry. But regulate is deep-tothe jungle were easily overlooked by workers paid for each gallon ot production. Depletion .of accessible trees is shown by. the drop in Guianas production in *1940 to less than 800,000 pounds. • Unrestrained by conservation laws, balata collector^ attacked Venezuela’s Jungle-. .*» 190fj and for 15 years averaged over three million pounds of export bn lata annually. It is estimated that in'.tliis period they left nearly H) million fallen monarchs to decay in the .forest. • Venezuela’s 1940 export hotal was under 300,000 pounds. |By felling a mature balata tree, about three gallons of gum can! be drawn off, producing 16 pound:» of dried export gum. restrictedtapping of the standing tree it; is estimated that a gallon of the m ilky latex yielding five pounds of ba’iata may be taken every second or tl lird year for many years. ..... INorthern Brazil, untouched in ithe early years of balata production, jre-cently has been the outstanding source. Brazil exported over five million pounds in 1940—about three-fourths of the year’s total for/ all South America. f‘Sniff Sets’I » •Air Raid PrecautionsTwo savants of Providence, R. I., college, the Rev. Frederick G. Hickey, OP, and Prof. J. J. Hanley, anmanufacturing sniff sets” of various poison gases that, might be used by enemy raiders, so air raid wardenmay readily reeognise the gases when encountered. At left, Prof. Hanley fills one of the sniff set bottleiwith mustard gas sample. Center: Father Hickey and his colleague’ show the correct technique of decontanilnating a vertical surface. Right: Creating a miniature lab-cxplorion to show what can happen by puttih)chloride of lime alone and undiluted on gas for decontamination purposes. Chloride should be mixed wit! earth and water. .Number One PortMassaua. Eritrea’s No. 1 port.ir71Good tires. Call 670J after 5 p. m,
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Saint Charles Daily Cosmos Monitor
Saint Charles, Missouri, US
Mon, Nov 09, 1942
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