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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 
Mr. Harrison, the manager at Culloden, is perhaps the best equipped 
rubber planter in the island, either from the planting or gathering stand- 
point. While he is in direct charge of Culloden estate, which, in 1903, 
produced 10,500 pounds of Para rubber, he had also supervision over the 
following estates : Heatherly, which produced, the same year, 3,500 pounds ; 
FIFTEEN YEAR OLD “HEVEA” TREES. 
[Planted among tea on an estate in Kalatura ] 
Tudugala, 6,000 pounds; Yatupauwa and Edengoda, 5,000 pounds. Thus 
it will be seen that fully one-half of the early crops of Ceylon Para 
passed through his hands, and in visiting him I was sure to be at the 
center of the rubber planting interest. It might be well to remember 
also that this 25,000 pounds annually, with a decided increase each year, 
came from about 20,000 trees that on an average are eight years old. 
