CHAPTER V

TAPPING AND COLLECTING

Tapping knives--Personal equation in use of knives--Choice of latex cups--Cleaning of cups--Water in cups--Premature (spontaneous) coagulation--Prevention of spontaneous coagulation--The use of anti-coagulants in the field-- Collecting pails--Payment by result--Methods for calculation of yields per coolie--Tree-scrap, oxidation of--Prevention of oxidation--Bark-shavings--Collection and storage of shavings-- Treatment of shavings--Collection of earth-scrap 38