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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. 
0 
l-T- 
fD 
No. of trees 
tapped. 
No. of inci- 
sions to each 
tree. 
| Pressed rub- 
ber produced. 
| Scrap 
j produced. 
| Total for the 
day. 
■■ 
Remarks. 
oz. 
oz. 
oz. 
May 19 100 j 
4 29 
. 1 
30 
The last time these 
„ 22 100 
! 4 43 
12 
55 
100 trees were tapped 
„ 27 100 
4 37? 
1 
3 
40I 
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 
