. India rubber world. ee grew in the .Acre district, he sent there to get theseed, instead of depending upon trees in the vicinity. Some 150 laliorers, mostly West Indian negroes, were em-ployed on the plantation. Whether or not the governmentpaid the company bonuses for the plantings of rice and rub-ber does not transpire. .According to the scale of premiumsthat the state promised, the company should have receivedabout $6,000 for rice and $10,000 for rubber planting. For soine time .Andre Goeldi worked there to produce acover crop that should enable the company to do away withthe constant cle
. India rubber world. ee grew in the .Acre district, he sent there to get theseed, instead of depending upon trees in the vicinity. Some 150 laliorers, mostly West Indian negroes, were em-ployed on the plantation. Whether or not the governmentpaid the company bonuses for the plantings of rice and rub-ber does not transpire. .According to the scale of premiumsthat the state promised, the company should have receivedabout $6,000 for rice and $10,000 for rubber planting. For soine time .Andre Goeldi worked there to produce acover crop that should enable the company to do away withthe constant cleaning of the rubber. His successful work 402 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [May !. 1914. with the bunch grass (See India Rubber Wokld, April, 1914,P. 347) has very probably solved the problem. A saw mill was also erected upon the property. This plantincludes not only engine, boilers, pumps and tanks, but aplaner, sticker, band saw and a machine and blacksmith shop. The rubber planting is on both sides of the river, the trees. Home of a Rubber G.\therer. Mojr River. being set about IS x 20 feet apart. The close cleaning fol-lowed in the East is not employed. Instead the rows of treesstand in cleared pathways with windrows of jungle trees arc very healthy and growing finely. They rangein age from two to four years. The land is of course verylevel. It is a sandy loam, with an occasional outcropping ofclay. At the present time little or no work is going on. ThePara aviador has retired from active participation in the af-fairs of the company. The laborers, many of whom fell ill,have been laid off, and, like everything in the Amazon valley,
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