Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-10-23

Writing about the production M
post Of rubber in Brazil, Consp,.e.
oral G. C. Andrews, formerly a M
sofa, says: "The rubber trse rsas n
growth of twenty to twerty. ass :
before it begins TO produce, hens. s
or nothing has been done for ~ 'a'ls
cation. The milky sap whios
rubber Is taken from the
which grows scattered through, 3 we
ests of the Amazon, and msn. " ~
afiiuents. The industry heinz y is
pally IN the hands of an uneducs,e
half-civilized nomad population n
dian mixture is OF a crude 4. ~
Nothing has been done TO imn,a. 4
system Of lalor. A wastefuI ~
haustive system of labor has hsss
lowed for half a century. and ~
sequence is that millions Of rubb~
have been destroyed and many ~ 49,
abandoned from premature and s17
i've use. There are instances ~ 49,
OF trees, which, by careful use ss,s
not permitting them 10 be tanras
the months of August and santps
in which they change their lesTss s
been yielding for thirty wears. and sss
are in good producing condition y
the common place practice is a ~.
full that many well-informed naon,s
prehend that, unless some remeJr
piled, this rich resource will bafo,.
suffer a serious and perhaps fatal Is
cline. ~
"The rubber tree thrives only an
which is annually oyerfiowed 10 S.sa1
OF three or o feet, and prefer N
lowest and most recent ri-ver.dnn.a
The rubber gatherers are ~te,nou,,.
squatters, and their dwelling Z
with a low roof Of palms, beneath :.
end OF which there is a raised Aoo, .
framework of lath, one or two :,
from the ground, to which the ocrur,.s
retreat at high water
The following description Of tho -
cess of gathering rubber was vrs.s.
by Franz Keller: Marrow path ~
from the gatherer's hut through IN.
underwood to each separate tree. All
soon as the dry season seats IA hi
takes himself with his Ratchet 4 /
trees to cut little holes in the ia 4
The milk white sap i~mmediately Iaen,
TO exude into pieces of bamboo tJE Y
low and having their ends in litsIe M \
cups set under the gashes to preyess i
trickling down the stem. lis t,,s,
thus from tree TO tree. On the rs., !
visit he pours the contents Of the b..
boos into a large earthen vessel M d
vided with straps, which he emuEa 4 e
home into a large turle-shen. WA b
out delay he sets to work to coaouhsi IN
il with smoke Of palm nuts, and pna} b.
a little of the milk evenly on 4 AZ. Az
wooden shovel, which he throws M IL
the thick smoke issuing from i htl liz
narrow chimney made by the neck Il
earthen bottle. He moves the shns5 nj
several times to and fro with great 81 On
pidity. when the milk is seen TO corr OF
date and to take a grayish-yeliov sna nj
Thus he puts layer upon layer, = Ma
til at last the rubber on both ala \ Be-
the wood has reached thickness dsj buI
or three centimeters, Cutting On 4 ma
side, he takes il off the shovel and Ind knt
1t in the sun to dry. A good worknl Zoo
can thus prepare five or six pousa] TER
solid rubber in an hour. Fromi z b
tial color of clear silyer-gray itha ee
shortly into a yellow, and fnaly Vi
comes the Yell-known dark III dt
OF the rubber, such rs is exported 20
more uniform, the denser and fssz |atb
bubbles the whole mass is the bid I " at
price it brings. Almost double the re y
ne is obtained for the first rate All sd y
over that Of the most inferior quAi 10
which is nothing but the drops coHs Of
at the foot of the trees tyes