Speaking generally, the estate has responded in an' extraordinary degree to the careful treatment it has received, and the policy adopted in 1922 has amply justified itself by results, At that time the estate was heading straight for a long period of enforced rest which would have! become necessary owing to the absence of tappable bark, but the milder tapping system that was enforced and the benefit derived from the planting of mimosa have completely altered the outlook, and the estate is now in the happy' position of having ample bark reeves for all time.
For the past three years we have been tapping above the height on the tree that we shall ever need to reach again but in spite-of this the crops have shown a provement each year a by the following figure:
Outpat 1922 198
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