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Trees tapped with four cuts, half herring bone on two 

 quarter sections of each tree on each alternate day. 



13 women each with 200 trees (100 trees daily). 

 4 reserve women in case of illness of regular hands 

 or to take the place of any absent for other reasons, 

 i woman to clean the cups, 

 i Female Mandoer. 



1 8 women (excluding the Mandoer) for 2,600 trees. 



The planting distance gave about 150 trees to the 

 acre, so that these 18 women tapped 16 acres. 



4. MANAGEMENT. 



It is not clear that the best system for dealing with 

 the management if the labour force has yet been settled 

 on. Generally speaking it would appear to be best that 

 payment to coolies should be on the basis of results, 

 as in other industries. 



A few cases may be mentioned as examples of diffe- 

 rent systems. 



On one estate the plantations suitable for tapping were 

 divided into fields each of 240 trees. Each female tapper 

 was allocated one field which she had to work over in 

 two days. Her afternoon's work was to get in the scrap 

 from the trees which she had tapped in the morning. 

 Each woman received a number and this number was 

 painted on her trees, the one day's trees, that is, halt 

 her total number, having a circle painted round the 

 number, and the remaining half being left plain. By 



