India rubber world . We tried the Ceylon tool, but it diflnt seem any better thanthe ordinary knife for this woik. The general manager ofCukra, although very much of an iconoclast, and not in thehabit of following other peoples lead, acknowledged thatinurh ol his tapping and coagulating was only experimentalmil that he expected befoic long to work down to a simplerHid more practical system. At the same time, he claimed that,cumbersome as his present process was, it proved most thor-oughly the profitableness of rubber planting. During the rest of our stay on this group of plantations wemade our
India rubber world . We tried the Ceylon tool, but it diflnt seem any better thanthe ordinary knife for this woik. The general manager ofCukra, although very much of an iconoclast, and not in thehabit of following other peoples lead, acknowledged thatinurh ol his tapping and coagulating was only experimentalmil that he expected befoic long to work down to a simplerHid more practical system. At the same time, he claimed that,cumbersome as his present process was, it proved most thor-oughly the profitableness of rubber planting. During the rest of our stay on this group of plantations wemade our headiiuarlcrs at Manhattan, riding out in various di-rections and examining the rubber and discussing it with thevarious planteis, who were much interested in making a successof it. There are in the vicinity, at a conservative estimate,about 400,000 cultivated Cas/illoa trees, the laigest single plan-tation being the Canada plantation, of which Mr. Waldron ismanager and chief owner. This plantation has about 200000. IN THE SHADE OF A RUBBER TREE. (.SaiiKil from riRlil to left: Sim Iron, S. \V. Siniiaik. I. ,\. IIkianuhr. II. Arnoi 1), AinmiK F. Townsknu. I lie Coult, IIknkv C. 332 THE INDIA RUBBER ^A^ORLD [July i, 1905.
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