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the showers, the bamboo pots being ME by Pn the 
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the *' Thitsi " collectors. n ds to obtain the largest 
quantity of milk in the shortest Lane’ possible, numerous incisions 
were made on the trees. The incisions were made in an upwa 
direction and converging as equine. 
e quan cA e nx collected was so small in the intervals 
hat it was deem imit th 
of the Bókchaungale, which flows through the plantation. The 
milk was found to flow much more freely from these trees, 
although not much larger than the trees first experimented upon. 
They have, paigal thicker bark, and it was observed that the 
exudation of milk was greatest near the ground, where the bark 
was thickest, while at a height of 6 or 7 feet it was almost nil. 
O wing to continued wet weather, it was found necessary to dry 
the milk over a fire and keep it subsequently in a warm place 
near the fire for about three weeks. 
he experiment was renewed between 22nd and 26th 
November, when the rains had fully ceased, 42 trees being 
operated on, viz., 5 to the west and 37 to the east of the 
Bókchaungale. 
4. I append a statement exhibiting the girths of the Hevea trees 
tapped between the 22nd and 26th November, 1888, and the 
number of incisions made on each :— 
: Average number 
ee Average Girth. of Incisions. 
ft. ins 
5 trees west of stream ... -— die 2. 1 22 
37 trees east of stream ... s ed Bod dec 12 
Mr. J. W. Oliver, Deputy Conservator of Forests in Charge of 
Tenasserim Circle, supplied the following ves ipiius explaining 
the method of collecting and drying the rubber 
The milk poaa Vue. the trees west of the stream was 
30 per cent. of the milk was collected in the shape of poene 
Instead of keeping Mim separate, these odd pieces were placed in 
the milk in order to secure the rubber in one These are 
the darker pieces of Ft ik hh may be seen in the largest piece 
of nuptae I do not think that they effect the quality of the 
rubber in any way, the odd pieces themselves eg ge and so 
ens idi of a better quality than the surrounding ru 
