Smithsonian Report, 1931. -Cook 



PLATE 7 



TAPPING A Rubber Tree 



Tapping a hevea or para rubber tree in », small plantation on the north mast of Ila.ili. The trees have 

 made normal growth and experiments have sliown that the yields of rul)her are comiiarahle to those 

 ot)t!uned in the plantations of the Orient. 



