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orchard to the trees that were then being tapped. This work was done 
very carefully and in the most cleanly way, the latex being caught in 
tin cups of which there were three rows of four cups each, making 
twelve cups to the tree. After the milk had stopped flowing and the cups 
had been emptied, a native was sent around with a spoon to take off the 
thick creamlike exudation that gathered in the cuts. As this was taken 
off before coagulation, it went into solution with the rest of the latex 
without any trouble. Mr. Waldron was getting three ounces of dry 
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rubber from each tree and was planning to tap them a number of times 
during the year. He talked of tapping by team work through the whole 
of the dry season, and during the wet season to skip only a couple of 
weeks during the torrential rains. 
We tried the Ceylon tool, but it didn’t seem any better than the 
ordinary knife for this work. The general manager of Cukra, although 
very much of an iconoclast, and not in the habit of following other 
people's lead, acknowledged that much of his tapping and coagulating 
