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that the tea is there in case the rubber fails. He 

 certainly does not look for any profit therefrom ! 



From the foregoing it will be readily concluded 

 that interplanting among rubber is not recommended 

 as a profitable or desirable undertaking. As a matter 

 of fact, experts are rapidly beginning to recognise 

 that the two prime factors in connexion with it viz. 

 the cost of labour together with the general returns 

 from the culture and the undoubted harm it does to 

 the growing rubber and the risks it occasions by pro- 

 viding the medium for introducing insect and fun- 

 goid pests hitherto strange to rubber in any situation, 

 make it an absolute duty on their part to condemn 

 the practice and to do all in their power to dissuade 

 planters from following what proves to be in most 

 cases a chimera and in actual practice an expensive 

 and a delusive undertaking. 



