Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — Supply of India Rubber. [ARTICLE]

Supply of India Rubber.

The supply of India-rubber is said to be inexhaustible. Each tree can be tapped for twenty. successive .years, and yields on an average three tfilMqj spoonfuls a day; 43J100 of these l\<« have been counted on a tract of, Ijffl thirty miles long by eight wjde.,