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Plant 880 trees to acre, and when eight years out thin 
out to say 500. 
The planters expect to put about 225 cacao trees 
between the rubber to be shaded by the rubber, say 350 
rubber trees. 
They expect to get three pounds, that is thirty-nine 
pods of cacoa, worth seventy-five cents from eight-year old 
trees. 
They ought to average quarter-pound of rubber, say 
twenty-five cents from ten-year old trees. 
Costiotlandvandjacres 4) ajay 3) he S10; Oolgold 
CHa se ea ewe cae oh ara Tee Ge aie i ey OO 
Plantiniosseedsa a. )san 2 us Ans 3 00 
Clearing three times a year for ent years 
(G7O014 eat) “ssc s65 . AR On oe rae 56 00 
Cost of eight-year old plantation per acre $84 00 
Then it should be self-supporting, and in three or four 
years return large profits. 
Unfortunately there has been so much crookedness and 
stock-jobbing in connection with rubber plantation that the 
industry has a bad name, and in fact is too young to make 
it possible to give any reliable figures. Many estates have 
been sold as fully developed plantations that were simply 
untouched forests, and, in many cases, these were on soil 
that was unsuitable for the purpose. I heard of a case in 
which a property that was being exploited had only a few 
acres planted. An inspector who came to look it over was 
taken through the planted area then into the woods where 
he was mixed up by the winding paths, and brought back 
to the same planted area again. This was repeated over 
and over again till he supposed he had seen a great acreage 
of rubber. 
ANTIQUITIES. 
All over Mexico are the remains of a vanished civiliza- 
zation. Digging in the ground to build a house in the for- 
