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in question ; and further, the Congress of the State has decreed 
that the Mangabeira tree shall be protected, and its cultivation 
extended, as is advisable 
This decree, in brief, runs as follows :— ; 
Article 1. $i. A premium of 25 contos of reis (25,000 milreis, 
or about. £784) shall be pu to him who, within four years 
from the passing of this decree, ees show that within a 
distance of 60 kilometres (27 miles) of a railway, he has 
planted and cultivated, for 2 Taste at least, the greatest — 
number of Mangabeira trees, preserving between the trees i 
enough room for their free developme : 
Sii. A premium of 15 contos (nearly £410) to him who shall = 
have planted the second greatest number. a 
ar A premium of 15 contos to him who shall have fulfilled E 
all the conditions of the first paragraph, excepting t he 
requirement with regard to the distance from a railway. ee 
Sv. A on m of 25 contos to him who, within the same — 
space of time, Sati within the prescribed 60 kilometres of a 
railway, shall have cultivated, for two years’ at least, the 
greatest number of Man gabeira trees, provided that at a 
same time he shall have rondlolill the ground, and remov 
all other trees 
§v. A premium ‘of 15 contos to rient shall have cultivated, | 
etc., the second greatest amo ok 
$vi. x premium of 15 contos i: oe stern shall have fulfilled — 
all the conditions of the fourth paragraph, except the — 
requirement with regard to the distance from a railway. ^ 
(vii. A premi of 10 contos (about £313) to whoever 
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have — ed in a manner profitable from the 
agricultural s mW any other species of rubber B 
eg., Manihot Glaziovi 
Article 2. A premium of 15 contos of reis to whoever E 
show that within the same time he has devised the best = 
method of extracting the latex. D 
Although but little is known so far of the cultivation of 
Mangabeira, it may be said that there is a considerable probab EC 
of it EEE zn important tree in rubber-culture. 4° 
German RR of Atrion [eem and Togoland | nae suc! 
for instance, as occur at Misa Bie. | ii the latter 
these soils it promises to be considerably eng ted p^ the. 
Ceara rubber plant (Manihot Glaziovii), and the Para rubbers 
(Hevea), and will probably give better b "han Castilloa, than 
Which it is more hardy, earlier maturing, and smaller." 
