AND THE MALAY STATES 



ths tin cup under the cut, it is rinsed out in cold water to keep the late.r 

 frcm adhering to the tin, and also to keep it from too quick a coagula- 

 tion. While I was there, a very interesting experiment in scraping the 

 outer bark from the trees had just been finished. The results, as far 

 as could be determined, were such a stimulation to the lactiferous ducts 

 that the flow was increased nearly fifty per cent. The oldest trees on 

 this plantation, by the way, are eighteen years, and have produced three 

 pounds a year ; by scraping the outer bark off they expect to get six 



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"HEVEA" TREES AT CULLODEN. 

 [Seven and eight years old.] 



pounds a year from each of these. There are only a few of these older 

 trees, however, most of them being seven or eight years of age. All 

 through the rubber orchards on this estate were hundreds of young 

 Para trees that were self sown ; indeed in many places they had come 

 up so thickly as to be a nuisance. The workmen on this estate, one 

 hundred in number, are all Tamil coolies, as the Singalese do not care 

 to work, preferring to cultivate rice, a good crop of which insures them 



