The capgtion for this 1912 image reads: Drawing milk from a tree to make rubber. Here we see a native girl tapping a rubber tree in Ceylon. Holes or grooves are cut in the trunk of the tree, and in a few hours milky juice flows out and is caught in basins or tins. A good tree yields about 20 gallons of juice in a season, producing 40 pounds of rubber. The juice is called caoutchouc, which is a native American word.

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