I4 6 PARA RUBBER. 



When in Ceylon I was shown three Para trees (age unknown) 

 which had recently been tapped and had yielded 2 1 Ibs. of rubber, 

 and they exhibited no ill effects. 



II. MALAY PENINSULA. 



Mr Arden* gives the following results obtained from tapping 

 trees at ages varying from three and a half to ten years : 



Ibs. oz. 



3 i-y ear-old trees gave T -54 



4" - 2 ' 2 5 



7 ' '4.275 



8 - i -75 

 10 -2 4.0 



The largest amount of dry rubber obtained from a ten-year- 

 old tree was 5 Ibs. 6i oz. The tree was 5 feet 3 inches in cir- 

 cumference, and was tapped with herring-bone incisions renewed 

 on fourteen alternate days. 



A treet in the Botanic Gardens, Penang, has yielded the 

 following quantities of rubber year by year since 1897 : 



Approximate 



Date of Tapping. Age of Tree Yield. 



in Years. 



Ibs. oz 



June 1897 ii 10 



November and December 1898 - 12^ 30 



April and May 1899 13 28 



November and December 1899 - 13^ 3 4 



October and November 1900 14! 3 12 



August and September 1901 15 22 



1902 16 2 13^ 



May 1903 i6| 36 



Mr Francis Pears J gives the following account of tapping in 

 Perak : 



"In case you have not received previous information, I 

 append particulars of the yield of two cultivated Para trees at 

 Gapis Estate, in Perak, reputed to be twenty-five years old. 

 The tapping was conducted by Mr Baxendale, and extended 

 over two months, and was done evidently with the intention of 

 procuring a maximum yield. 



* Report upon Hc-vea brasiliensis in the Malay Peninsula, 

 t Straits Settlements Agricultural Bulletin. 

 \ India-rubber Journal, 2nd Feb. 1903. 



