This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... who know the seringuero's life now, tell you that his lot is so hard that he can do nothing in the way of cultivating the soil, or even manage to build a weatherproof house; if this is correct, it only goes to prove how very rotten are the foundations on which the, at present, tottering rubber industry of the Amazon ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... who know the seringuero's life now, tell you that his lot is so hard that he can do nothing in the way of cultivating the soil, or even manage to build a weatherproof house; if this is correct, it only goes to prove how very rotten are the foundations on which the, at present, tottering rubber industry of the Amazon Valley is expected to stand. Some of the men, at least, are not so ground down, and I do not believe that there is the necessity for any of them to be reduced to the straits some undoubtedly are through bad management on their part, or by trying to tap too large an area and being overworked, or for other reasons. Remove the necessity, therefore, for this tissue and healthexhausting life, and watch how the man and industry alike will go ahead. This surely can be achieved by placing the tapper on cleared areas, where he can grow his food, tobacco, sugar, &c, and so avoid having to buy them at outrageous prices, and in thus reducing the cost of living he will not be forced to cover so wide an area in his daily round of rubber-tapping in order to get enough rubber to satisfy his creditor and so merely to exist, and not always that. In the same way as " contractors " plant cacao in the West Indies, especially in the Island of Trinidad, whilst cultivating the soil and keeping their families in comfort and health, so should the well-organized settler up the Amazon be able to do likewise, only tapping the rubber instead of planting the cacao. In time such seringueros, like the cacao contractors, can become landed proprietors, especially if an agreed sum per rubber tree is paid him at the end of three, five, or seven years (as is done with cacao) for every rubber tree of an agreed age that he has isolated and cleared of growth, so that it ...
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