. India rubber world. otographs reproduced here by way of illustrat-ing the work of this plantation shows the coolies in the actof extracting a root of one of the jungle trees. This its size, is one of the cleanest and best kept inthe East, the managers believing that the initial expense ofpulling out stumps and roots, tho large, is warranted by theultimate result. No serious pests and diseases have appeared,but the disease most dreaded, Fomes seinitostus, usually findsIts habitat on dead stumps and roots, and it is to obviate thepossibility of losses from this fung
. India rubber world. otographs reproduced here by way of illustrat-ing the work of this plantation shows the coolies in the actof extracting a root of one of the jungle trees. This its size, is one of the cleanest and best kept inthe East, the managers believing that the initial expense ofpulling out stumps and roots, tho large, is warranted by theultimate result. No serious pests and diseases have appeared,but the disease most dreaded, Fomes seinitostus, usually findsIts habitat on dead stumps and roots, and it is to obviate thepossibility of losses from this fungus that the stumps and rootsof old jungle trees are being removed. The trees have beenplanted 121 to the acre, with the view of bringing 100 trees intobearing, but so free have the plantations been of disease thatthe management expects to bring practically 100 per cent, ofthe trees into bearing. Mr. Davis contends that it is perfectlypossible, through proper management, to avoid practically all these fungoid -l-^> ■ acre. The Holland-American people expect easily to live upto this average and anticipate inside of the next few yearsan annual product from the 34,000 acres now planted of 10,000,000pounds. There is this additional feature to be mentioned, that thisvast amount of rubber, being made entirely under one manage-ment, will be uniform in quality, a condition the absence of whichhas hitherto greatly militated against the manufacturers apprecia-tion of plantation rubber. But, even with its great supplies, it isobvious that the company will have no rubber to sell, so it willbe in no way a competitor of the other planting enterprises;while, on the other hand, the operations of this American planta-tion, conducted as they are on a scale never before attempted oriven dreamed of, will be watched with the keenest interest byrvery planter, big and small, in the entire East—and they can-not fail to prove of the greatest value, in the lessons they willleach, to the
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