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TABLE I. : GIRTH MEASUREMENTS continued 

 Second Plantation : 10 Adjacent Trees next Row inside 



Mean girth = 44x52 inches. 

 Riverside Plantation : 13 TYeds, 27 Fjrs old (Second Generation) 



Mean girth=7i'5i inches. 



Tapping on the three V system half round the tree of 

 these thirty-eight outside trees was begun on Novem- 

 ber i, 1912, and continued to February 15, 1913, when, 

 dry weather having set in, the trees were rested. 

 Tapping therefore took place daily for three and a 

 half months. Tables II., III. and IV. give the weight of 

 biscuit and scrap produced from these trees in the three 

 plantations respectively. 





