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A GLIMPSE OF RUBBER PLANTING 
NATIVE RUBBER TEN YEARS OLD SURROUNDED BY PLANTED RUBBER AND 
CHOCOLATE. 
was exceedingly soggy and wet, and while the bananas were apparently 
very thrifty, the rubber did not look as well as it should. The leaves, to 
be sure, were shedding, which made the trees look their worst, but the 
few trees that we tapped gave out an exceedingly thin milk, more like 
skimmed milk than cream, containing, for a guess, not over twenty per 
cent, of rubber. It is possible, of course, that at the end of the dry season 
this might thicken up appreciably and be worth extracting, but unless 
that happened, they would hardly pay to tap. 
TYPICAL LOWLAND TOWN. 
