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A Days Work at Gathering.—A huléro (Indian or Carib rubber-gatherer 
of Nicaragua) can tap four wild creeper-grown trees ina day. In a planta- 
tion, where the trees are weeded and cleaned of superfluous growth, he can 
tap five at least, and also plaster the cuts with mud, A huléro’s wages are 
1s. 38d. per day. The Castilloa grows to a height of 60 feet. It seeds in its 
tenth year. 
Tapping.—It should not be tapped before its eighth year. The cuts made 
in tapping the tree should be plastered up, when the tree would be ready for 
tapping again in six months; but the huléro works in the forests, which are 
No-man’s Land, and he says: “ Plenty hulé heah, sah! Me fin’ ten—twenty 
mo’ tree while um doin’ dat. An’ what goo’? Perhaps I nevah come back 
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heah no mo’.”” Hence the trees, once tapped, dry up and die. 
Development of the Industry in Africa.—From a paper recently read by 
Sir Gilbert T. Carter, K.O0.M.G., before the Royal Colonial Institute, we learn 
that the development of the rubber industry in certain parts of the Yoruba 
country (West Africa) since 1893 has been phenomenal, While in 1893 the 
total export amounted to 5,867 lb., valued at £324 6s. 4d., the following year 
it rose to 5,069,576 Ib., valued at £269,893, and in 1896 the value reached the 
large total of £347,730. The tree from which these supplies are drawn is 
known as the Kickxia africana. Large companies are being formed, and 
people say, “If you plant anything, plant rubber.” 
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