The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-25

pectations but when the time collecting the crop the
yield OF rubber small that would pay the expense
OF gathering similar reports from the West Indies with
ne Single exception OF Dominica where is said yield small
Proh he Ceyon Handbook and Directory gives the fol-
lowing information which considerably condensed In
OF He0ea bassis para rubber were transmitted from Kew
10 the government Gardens in Ceylon oo9 them ar
sdlei, ana portion OF these were later to Assam
burma and other hot damp India proper where
due IaPla growth and continued to do WELL where
| were planted on very low land subject to deep flooding
during the rains there they died. although they to do well
Brazil along the banks of the Amazon tributaries where
@ u = suDJect 70 an annual overflow The Para yields
inc very best quality OF rubber and samples of equal
Ficus; the highest price paid in London in April 1901
was for lot of Para from Pera India which brought IS
Paris Journal OF Tropical Agriculture NJ Poisson Der 9l f
OF rubber producing their haba discovered
forests, both in appearance and yielding qualities He
speaks OF them white BLACK" Heveas claiming
leaves being and damaged bites as the
case with the white the having branches and
or seeds While this tree 6rives At an esti F II 800
Ceyon it generally supposed require high temperature
and IS only by experiment that be whether
not will thrive Hawaii Many readily become ac-
clmated here that found quite dissmar climates Take
the Nagostee for instance native of Singapore
OF Kauai and does the Durham Although rubber cutiva
ton has been carried for years yet decidedly in
the experimental stage though volumes Of positive opinions
have been published where it will and viii not do well
little practical experience would value for us
than all that has been written the subject
concerned.
To idea OF the yield per tree the follow
ing taken from The Tropical Agrculurist" of Nav 1904
regarding the tapping of four Hevea the Cuoden
Estate Kauara, Ceylon during the January and
days and the total yield rubber s. pounds II ounces or
20 old and have been constantly tapped They
have been subjected tapping time
queny they now in perfectly healthy condition Opinions
differ widely to the distance which the should be
planted apart ranging from feet 3ox3o feet Foa
that the young may ground and acquire
branches to considerable height At eight years old
desirable to kill Them leaving the plantation then feet
if the vigor of the seemed
profitable both the Government and private planters
Con that the production of rubber has been rather secondary
consideration, they preferrng their
state of The seeds also found yield excellent
quality of OIL similar that of lnseed By careful packing
seeds have been found retain their terminating powers
least weeks after ripening This tree ought to be given
casloa elasiea perhaps among the desirable kinds
of rubber producing trees all things considered the
likely give satisfactory Territory
growing Mexico up degrees latitude,
and reaches down several degrees south of the from
level up than feet elevation though it said
to yield much rubber at anything 1000 feet The latter
is, perhaps much like Scotch verdict not
the evidence in the being that isolated tree
found at the higher altitude and on tapping yielded no rubber
growing side by side in the forests with fertile the natives
putting their private marks the barren trees indicating that
although they bear seed freely the prolific In
the East Indies the preference has far been given to the
In the West Indies they prefer the Castoa but there
many exceptions also In Mexico and Central America
easca course the being found right at their
estimated that at least twenty million dollars have
invested by people of the United States in rubber
plantations Mexico and Central America during the last 10
Like all the foregoing kinds Casloa will readily
cuttings planters generally consider that seedlings
preferred According Mr. Koschny resident of Costa
Rca student of the CdSoa elaslca there two kinds
the light and dark coored barks but contrary
the He9ea BraseHs in this case it IS the light bark that
good the dark he says, not worth planting
Perhaps the plan follow in this would be to Sc
cure supply light colored cuttings for seed bearers and
quantity Of selected product from which could be
eeded out they become old enough to show their
Besides the cuttings would probably produce
seed much sooner than seedlings would The seed is said
good becoming if washed clean Of pulp and
packed in dry about days alter which
they soon lose vitality and they do grow the seedlings
very puy In October of last the Department OF
Agriculture Washington issued Bulletin being report
F. Cook observations of the Rubber Tree IN Central
America under cultivation and otherwise This Bulletin IS
of the