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A GLIMPSE OF RUBBER PLANTING 



NATIVE RUBBER TEN YEARS OLD SURROUNDED BY PLANTED RUBBER AND 

 CHOCOLATE. 



was exceedingly soggy and wet, and while the bananas were apparently 

 very thrifty, the rubber did not look as well as it should. The leaves, to 

 be sure, were shedding, which made the trees look their worst, but the 

 few trees that we tapped gave out an exceedingly thin milk, more like 

 skimmed milk than cream, containing, for a guess, not over twenty per 

 cent, of rubber. It is possible, of course, that at the end of the dry season 

 this might thicken up appreciably and be worth extracting, but unless 

 that happened, they would hardly pay to tap. 



TYPICAL LOWLAND TOWN. 



