this means she was enabled to distinguish easily each 

 clay's work. 



A list is kept hung up in the factory with the respec- 

 tive fields indicated, and it is written up each day with 

 the amount of latex obtained by each woman in the 

 morning and the scrap in the evening. Owing to the neces- 

 sity for adding some amount of water to the latex iu the 

 cups, it is not possible to reckon up the exact amount of 

 amount of latex gathered, but if any great excess is 

 added, the falsification would be apparent. Possibly a 

 simple instrument like an areometer might be of good 

 use in this direction. On the estate in question the latex 

 collected by the women is bulked together and it is 

 only after coagulation and further manipulation that the 



average return from each labourer can be ascertained. 

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It was intended as soon as a larger area was ready for 

 tapping, to allocate a special gang to each section of the 

 estate and separate establishments would be maintained 

 for coagulation and a monthly account would be taken so 



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that premiums might be allowed to each gang based 

 on the quantity of coagulated latex obtained. 



On other estate, I saw also, the gang system was 

 also adopted. Special arrangements were made to ascer- 

 tain effectively the quantities of the different grades of 

 rubber collected. Here again, each gang had its own 

 field. The gathered rubber was collected and carefully 

 weighed daily. Labels of which were provided to affix 

 to the different descriptions of the prepared rubber. 



Specimens are shown on page 117. 



