India rubber world . aged to step on mytoes just as I prepared to mount. Butshe did take advantage of me when shechose to stop on a log bridge not morethan two feet wide and standing onthree legs try to bite a fly that she pre-tended was on the fourth. We did notfall off but had I started her with voiceor whip I think we should have. Shehad a habit too of imagining she saw asnake ahead in the trail and suddenlyI staid with her every time and am still •:<&? m OF RUBBER FIELD ONEOLD. leaping to one side just as much surprised at it as she was. Our first visit was to Ixtal, where I had a chanc
India rubber world . aged to step on mytoes just as I prepared to mount. Butshe did take advantage of me when shechose to stop on a log bridge not morethan two feet wide and standing onthree legs try to bite a fly that she pre-tended was on the fourth. We did notfall off but had I started her with voiceor whip I think we should have. Shehad a habit too of imagining she saw asnake ahead in the trail and suddenlyI staid with her every time and am still •:<&? m OF RUBBER FIELD ONEOLD. leaping to one side just as much surprised at it as she was. Our first visit was to Ixtal, where I had a chance to again thank Mr. Adams for his earlier helpfulness, and also to meet his right hand man, Mr. Stewart. It was to mv IXTAL. , , , , , . mind, the hottest day we had experienced when wefinally reached the ridge upon which the plantation buildingswere located. By that time I was getting to be somewhat of aconnoisseur in rubber trees, and so, after the noon breakfast, was 296 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [June 9°3-. LA FLORENCIA COFFEE AMONG RUBBER TREES THREE TO FIVE YEARS OLD. ing. Our next journey was to La Junta, the glad to accompa ly Mr. Adams on a tour of inspection. Herewere some 250 acres planted to rubber, the oldest being fouryears, the total number of trees being about 150,000. The land was very similar to that at La Ventura and thegrowth about the same, although in a part of the plantationthe trees seemed to be a little taller. Latex flowed from themall abundantly and my guide said that he had never found onethat did not show plenty of milk. In discussing this questionMr. Adams told of an Austrian scientist who had been in thatregion and who claimed that there were three native Castilloaspecies, only one of which was a rubber producer. They alllocked alike, so he said, and the difference in them could onlybe detected by a careful examination of the cellular structureof the leaf. He said further that he uprooted 80 per cent, ofhis own first years planting because he did
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