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coolie on the estate. No expense or trouble is too 

 great that will ensure a well-housed, healthy, and 

 contented labour force." 



The foregoing is intended as a warning against 

 supposing that while the view is expressed that 

 there is a good outlook for rubber-planting in 

 Qucliniane, it cannot all be left entirely to the 

 land. The planter must do his part, and to do 

 that successfully he must either set about acquir- 

 ing practical experience in the management of a 

 Ceara rubber plantation, or engage the services 

 of an experienced manager. The business cannot 

 be learned by reading about it. Perhaps the 

 greatest service a writer can do in the cause of 

 rubber is plentifully to sprinkle his pages with 

 danger-signals, and to urge that in the case of 

 such a new industry as this the planter, before he 

 begins, should make as sure as he can what he 

 is going to do, how he is going to do it, and how 

 much it is going to cost. 



Owing principally to the investigations of 

 Captain Cardozo, Inhambane has been the chief 

 centre of experiment with Ceara rubber {Manihot 

 Glaziovii) in the southern part of the Province. 

 An examination of his results has confirmed me 

 in the opinion I have long held, viz., that very 

 little is as yet known about the cultivation of 

 this tree, and that its behaviour in one place 



