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although a certain percentage will usually arrive in a 

 broken condition. The only objection is that the name 

 of the estate cannot be put on indelibly so that theft is 

 comparatively easy. 



2. GATHERING OF VARIOUS FORMS OF THE PRODUCT. 



i. Collection of the latex. 



The ways in which the process of tapping is to be 

 carried out, have now been clearly shown, and it has 

 been pointed out how essential it is to start tapping as 

 early as possible in the morning. Each tapper should 

 receive a given area, all the trees in which he is to tap 

 daily - - if daily tapping is to be the system - - or if 

 alternate days' tapping be adopted, he must tap half of 

 his trees one day and the other half the next. 



Tapping cannot be carried out on rainy days. If it 

 were attempted the water streaming down the trunks 

 of the trees would wash the latex away. 



The practice should be for the coolies to go into the 

 fields as early as possible in the morning. Each workman 

 should be armed with a tapping tool, a piece of tin (a 

 piece cut out of a petroleum tin) a basket and a pail 

 of water. Having arrived at the tree to be tapped the 

 first places the latex cup in the proper place to catch 

 the drip and puts a little water in the cup. Then he 

 puts the piece of tin over the latter so that no dirt may 

 get in the latex. His next step is to clear out from the cuts 

 any scrap that has coagulated from previous operations, 

 and then he must make fresh cuts. When the latex 



