






e? ‘anid * scrap.” The lator comes in pieces about 21 feet longs 
from 10 to 40 pounds. In the gathering of rubber in 
sem the euts in the tree a residuum is left, Wer is jun to 
erquisite, and this forms “scrap.” As in the peculiar 
e of ditiis it is very dry, there is little loss in Eum and 
E put iot ac it a favourite with mar nufacturers. It contains | 
not. so much as the **sheet." The sheet, after it is- 
ets in 
Minute amount of ashes, due fo its being smoked over the 
.It comes in thin sheets $ to $ inch thick. It is a dry rubber, 
not viec so much loss in shrinkage ; but it is not so firm as the 
gend and it is difficult to work. There also comes from Central 
orts a rabber which is chiefly grown in New Granada, - 
dung strip.” It is from 1} to 2 inches thick, 
T: of smd and dirt in it. ET isa hones tough 


exico, once sent a fin e of strip rubber; but as the trees have - 
been M by cutting E dini. down instead of tapping for rubber, the 
m there are now very small. The rubber is gathered by. 











il comes in | large flakes or lumps of a whitish colour in the — 
the inferior sorts being porous and exuding a black liquid — oe 
ns the knife and. eig Asina gent d Veet trals " the 
nfounded with the s 


may to America, f 
it brigin a high price. l L. e 
y ‘Europe, brokers not quoting it there. A great deal 
ber gathered in Columbia fiuds. its b the pisos and. 


ber from Asin the Acai probably take the lead, and are rated 
are Para i in price. There are three or four grades, a the lower. ; 
oo and all of them réquiviug. g much "was shing. - 
uro pane ofr übber lesse. 1 Borneo 


