However, as the Congo State has planted a number of 

 Funtumias, experiments are still carried on in order to improve 

 the system of tapping. 



The different methods recommended in other colonies have 

 been tried in the Government plantations : the Schulze im Hofe 

 system (vertical incisions); the full herring-bone (15 to 20 ft. 

 high); the Christy system (pricking on the herring-bone 

 pattern). 



A new method has been devised by M. Sparano, one of the 

 Congo Government Agriculturists. It is similar to the Christy 

 method, but the full herring-bone is not made in one operation ; 

 the tapping is completed in nine or ten days, a few new laterals 

 being traced every other day. 



The trees seem to stand this tapping very well and yield 

 heavily, the yield in these experiments being twice the amount 

 collected by the ordinary herring-bone, and four times the yield 

 of the Schulze method. 



KAUTSCHUK-ANBAU IN DEN DEUTSCHEN KOLONIEN. 



Von Dr. FRITZ FRANK, 

 Kautschuk-Zentrastelle fur die Kolonien, Berlin. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



Referent schildert die Verhaltnisse, unter welchen in den 

 deutschen Schutzgebieten Kautschuk angebaut wurde und 

 angebaut wird, Er zeigt, dass ausser den jeweils heimischen 

 Gewachsen auch die unter anderen Verhaltnissen heimischen 

 Kautschuklieferanten sich anpassen und verweist hier auf die 

 plastischen Beispiele aus Kongo und Goldkiiste. Man hat dort 

 die Hevea zum Teil auch unter Neiderschlags-Verhaltnissen, 

 welche unter 2,000 m. liegen, heimisch machen konnen und 

 nach einigen schwierigen Jahren ungunstiger Entwicklung den 

 ortlichen Verhaltnissen angepasst befunden. 



[TRANSLATION. ] 

 RUBBER CULTIVATION IN THE GERMAN COLONIES. 



The writer describes the conditions under which rubber is 

 being and has been cultivated in the German Protectorates. 

 He points out that, besides the original indigenous plants, 

 rubber-yielding plants which are native under other conditions 

 also become acclimatized, and he refers in this connection to the 

 examples from the Congo and the Gold Coast. There they 



