CHAPTER XII 

 CEYLON Continued 



Yield and density of latex Bulletin of the Ceylon Government 

 Department of Agriculture Advantages of Ceylon for rubber pro- 

 duction The labour question Discipline on estates Standard 

 of living Future development and cost of production Ceara 

 and castilloa Exportation^ rubber from Ceylon since 1904. 



WITH the exception of the period covered by 

 February and March, when the weather is dry 

 and the trees are wintering, tapping in Ceylon is con- 

 tinued regularly throughout the year. On some " itates 

 it is not suspended during the time mentioned, but the 

 general rule has been to stop the work for these few 

 weeks to allow the trees to recuperate from the exhaust- 

 ing effects of the constant extraction of latex during 

 the previous ten months. When tapping does take 

 place in this latter portion of the dry season, the yield 

 deteriorates both in quality and quantity. 



The ages of trees on Ceylon estates vary so greatly 

 that it is difficult to obtain accurate statistics of yields 

 over any large acreage. At Culloden Estate, in the 

 Kalutara District, a section comprising seventy-nine 

 trees gave the following results : 



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