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World:  Ours  is  not  one  of  the  million  dollar  companies  that 
promise  returns  from  by  products  the  first  year,  but  a legitimate 
enterprise  for  making  money  when  the  trees  get  large  enough  to 
tap.  ” 
The  India  Rubber  World, 
RUBBER  TAPPING  EXPERIMENTS  IN  THE 
BOTANIC  GARDENS. 
In  Nos.  2 and  3 of  Vol.  II  of  this  Bulletin,  certain  observations 
on  the  tapping  experiments  conducted  in  the  economic  section  of 
the  Botanic  Gardens,  were  recorded.  Owing  to  the  absence  for  a 
time  on  a collecting  tour  in  Pahang  of  the  Officer  deputed  to  con- 
duct these  experiments,  they  were  for  a short  time,  discontinued. 
On  the  resumption  of  these  operations,  all  the  hundred  trees  that 
were  being  bled,  were  found  to  be  in  bloom,  and  the  quantity  of 
rubber  obtained,  was,  as  will  be  noticed  from  table  below,  much 
diminished.  This  phenomenon  is  so  well  known  in  the  Amazons, 
that  there,  a rubber  tree  is  never  tapped  when  it  is  in  flower. 
a 
No.  of  trees 
tapped. 
No.  of  inci- 
sions to  each 
tree. 
Pressed  rub- 
ber produced. 
Scrap 
produced. 
Total  for  the 
day. 
Remarks. 
oz. 
oz. 
oz. 
May  19  100 
4 
29 
I 
30 
The  last  time  these 
„ 22  100 
4 
43 
12 
55 
100  trees  were  tapped 
•„  271  100 
I 4 
37i 
3 
4oi 
was  on  May,  1st. 
It  will  be  seen  from  above  that  the  quantity  of  rubber  produced 
during  these  three  tappings  was  far  below  the  amount  obtained 
from  previous  tappings,  when  the  trees  were  not  then  florescent. 
And  in  order  to  determine  if  this  diminished  production  of  rubber, 
has  really  any  connexion  with  the  blooming  of  the  trees,  one  hun- 
dred virgin  trees,  growing  under  precisely  the  same  conditions  as 
the  first  hundred  previously  operated  upon,  likewise  in  bloom,  were 
