RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



Potash 1.320% 



Phosphoric acid . . . . 398% 



Lime 084% 



Magnesia 2.117% 



Hence 1,000 pounds dried leaves would contain about four pounds 

 phosphoric acid; 13.2 pounds potash; .8 pounds lime; 21.1 pounds 

 magnesia ; and thirty-seven pounds nitrogen. From this it will be seen 

 that the leaf is curiously rich in magnesia, but whether from selection 

 or force of circumstances it is difficult to say. 



MdH of the work is done by contract, each coolie being expected to 

 get latex enough to produce one pound of dried rubber a day. It is 



VIEW OF "HEVEA six MONTHS AFTER PLANTING. 



very interesting to watch them as they troop up to the curing house 

 early in the forenoon, with huge tin cans of late.r on their heads, and to 

 note how they watch the straining that none is slopped over, and even 

 rinse cups, cans, and every receptacle and add it to the rest that no 

 precious drop escape. 



The rubber landed in Colombo costs sixteen cents a pound, United 

 States money. Just to let the skeptical do a little bit of thinking, and 

 by the skeptical I mean the majority of rubber manufacturers who 



