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former it would be considered by many too severe 

 on such young trees. Further, it should not be 

 forgotten that in the case of the Entebbe experi- 

 ments only a few trees were tapped, whereas at 

 Kivuvu the number was 1,800. Figures obtained 

 in experiments on a small scale are rarely borne out 

 by a more extended experience. This arises from 

 the impossibility of bestowing as close attention on 

 the work in the latter case as in the former. The 

 general conclusion, however, to be drawn from the 

 figures is that nearly 1 Ib. of rubber may be 

 obtained from a five-year-old tree, and 2 Ibs. from 

 an eight-year-old tree. These results are entirely 

 satisfactory. 



Cocoa. With Cocoa we have even fewer actual 

 figures of yields on record than in the case of Para. 

 Trees have been yielding in Entebbe Botanic 

 Gardens for the last six years, but no records of 

 these yields have been published. All the crop 

 has gone for seed, for which the demand is very 

 great. One cannot but wish that some record of 

 the number of pods gathered had been kept, for 

 from such figures a fairly accurate estimate of the 

 crop could have been made. 



To convey an idea of what a good crop of Cocoa 



