From the forest to the foot by Richards C. Louis

Author:Richards, C. Louis
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Rubber, Rubber footwear
Publisher: Boston : Dryside press

incision is made in the tree and a diminutive

earthenware cup is placed below it to catch the

flow. In many respects the -

operation is akin to the gathering of maple-sap in New

England. The sap from

the rubber tree flows into

the cup and at night the

entire yield is gathered

into one huge earthenware jug or calabash and

brought to the huts.

Some trees yield from ten to

thirty cups, and one worker

may attend from one hundred

and ten to one hundred and forty trees, so that day's work is apt to be highly remunerative. The contents of the calabash now resembles a huge pan of milk, and to make from | this the crude rubber requires a skillful and peculiar manipulation, preparations for which have been going on meanwhile. >' A smoldering fire of palm nuts ready, the smoke from which transforms the gum into crude rubber. To concentrate this

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