. India rubber world. cres owned by this company, 4,439acres are under cultivation, which produced in the last sixmonths of 1913 about 264,822 pounds, against 81,917 pounds forthe corresponding period of last year. PATALING rubber ESTATES SYNDICATE, LTD. (FEDERATED MALAY STATES). This company has a total cultivated area of 2,025 acres, ofwhich 1,422 acres are under cultivation. For 1913 the crop was484,132 pounds, against 429,547 pounds in 1912. 272 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD (Febri-ary 1. 1914. TAPPING RESULTS IN BRITISH GUIANA. On the average, during the six months these trees havel>ocn tappe
. India rubber world. cres owned by this company, 4,439acres are under cultivation, which produced in the last sixmonths of 1913 about 264,822 pounds, against 81,917 pounds forthe corresponding period of last year. PATALING rubber ESTATES SYNDICATE, LTD. (FEDERATED MALAY STATES). This company has a total cultivated area of 2,025 acres, ofwhich 1,422 acres are under cultivation. For 1913 the crop was484,132 pounds, against 429,547 pounds in 1912. 272 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD (Febri-ary 1. 1914. TAPPING RESULTS IN BRITISH GUIANA. On the average, during the six months these trees havel>ocn tapped, we have produced just over one pound 1 ounce THE manager of The Ilills plantation on the Mazaruni Pt tree.■* River, British Guiana, recently sent a report to the —directors of that company resident in this country coveringthe results of tapping experiments made on Heica trees ofvarious ages on tht- plantation. His report, in part, reads asfollows: On May ilu t<i this year, wo starlud tn .^2 Xlrserv with Over Seedlings. River andManagers Hill in the Background. which had reached exactly four years and three months inage, all of which were 18 inches or more in circumferencethree feet from the ground, and each tree has been tappedwith a single V (started at 18 inches from the ground) forthe past six months up to the 12th of November. At thecommencement of tapping we tapped six days per week, butfound that it would be better to tap seven days, as after therest of 48 hours we always found that we had a redui-tiun in
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