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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



Mr. Harrison, the manager at Culloden, is perhaps the best equipped 

 rubber planter in the island, either from the planting or gathering stand- 

 point. While he is in direct charge of Culloden estate, which, in 1903, 

 produced 10,500 pounds of Para rubber, he had also supervision over the 

 following estates : Heatherly, which produced, the same year, 3, 500 pounds ; 



FIFTEEN YEAR OLD "HEVEA" TREES. 



[Planted among tea on an estate in Kalatura.] 



Tudugala, 6,000 pounds ; Yatupauwa and Edengoda, 5,000 pounds. Thus 

 it will be seen that fully one-half of the early crops of Ceylon Para 

 passed through his hands, and in visiting him I was sure to be at the 

 center of the rubber planting interest. It might be well to remember 

 also that this 25,000 pounds annually, with a decided increase each year, 

 came from about 20,000 trees that on an average are eight years old. 



