. The great cultures of the isle of Java. 30 photos . is chopped off at the root; 3. The bark is cut in bands and the tree is wrappedup in moss, that the bark may recover; i. The bark is scraped off by means of a smallplane up to the cambium. Generally, onty half of thebark is taken off and the other half is not touched tillthe first is sufficiently restored. The bark is peeled offwith knives of bamboo or horn. Iron knives wound thebark or discolour it. In Java all four ways have been tried, but graduallythe greater part of the planters have broken with themethods mentioned under 2, 3 and 4 ab
. The great cultures of the isle of Java. 30 photos . is chopped off at the root; 3. The bark is cut in bands and the tree is wrappedup in moss, that the bark may recover; i. The bark is scraped off by means of a smallplane up to the cambium. Generally, onty half of thebark is taken off and the other half is not touched tillthe first is sufficiently restored. The bark is peeled offwith knives of bamboo or horn. Iron knives wound thebark or discolour it. In Java all four ways have been tried, but graduallythe greater part of the planters have broken with themethods mentioned under 2, 3 and 4 above, and keep ex-clusively to the first mentioned, i. e. digging out thewhole tree. § 8. The gathered bark is dried in the sun, ondrying-apparatus or over the fire on iron-plates. On one sideof the plates, which rest on little walls, there is the oven andat the other side the chimney so as to permit the fireand smoke to pass under the plates. More expensivedrying-apparatus is the Jacksons siroccos in which thefire itself causes the Pt-nivian barks sliU young.
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