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The outlook is good viewed from the standpoint of an in- 
creasing demand for the product. 
Conditions in Hawaii are apparently extremely favorable for 
the cultivation of the Ceara trees. One of the newly formed 
companies have already planted 100,000 seeds of this species. 
and expect to have half a million trees growing within another 
two years. If our planters succeed with rubber as they have 
with sugar, and put into the business as much science, skill and 
knowledge as they would into any other new enterprise there 
can be absolutely no question of ultimate success. The planters 
of Hawaii stand on an equal footing with those of any other of 
the tropical countries of the world in that the cultivation of 
rubber is as yet everywhere only an experiment. 
Jaked G. Smith, 
Special Agent in Charge of Hawaii Experiment Station. 
Honolulu, H. T.. July 20, 1905. 
