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difficulties of transport, any remunerative cultivation for export could be 
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made in Banana and Strawberry cultivation with satisfactory results, for 
seasons, when the islands are thronged by American and anadian 
visitors. In many quarters it is believed, and it has been frequently 
for 
May 1888, have been communicated for publication in the Bulletin by 
Commissioner, some particulars regarding the India-rubber trade in the 
Mogaung district. 
India-rubber seems to have been first exported from Upper Burma to 
Rangoon about the year 1870. Up to 1873 the trade was free to all 
who chose to engage in it ; since 1873 the forests have been worked 
under the monopoly system, For the first nine years five Chinese 
