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Pard, rubber trees, eight to eleven years old, planted 

 amongst slightly older cocoa, are now obtaining a yield 

 of about two hundred Ibs. of rubber and the same of 

 cocoa per acre per year. 1 



Interplanting with Castilloa does not appear to have 



X X 







x x 





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IB fee* 



fi\ Cocoa (to be kept). 



i Cocoa (to be removed). 

 vy Kapok. 



FIG. 43. Scheme of planting cocoa and " kapok." 



In the rows where no " kapok " has been planted, every other cocoa tree is removed when 

 five years old (plantation " Siloewok Sawangan," Java). 



met with much success in Ceylon, while the Ceara 

 rubber (Manihot) is considered to be decidedly detri- 

 mental to the cocoa. 2 



In Java interplanting with " kapok " (Eriodendron 

 anfractuosum) is to be found on many plantations. 

 Different distances have been adopted, but the best 



1 Wright, Cocoa, pp. 87-88. 2 Ibidem, p. 93. 



