Show east H hold 0 ld rubber supremacy bears until ten years ago rubber meant rubber from brazil today Braz brazils ilir supremacy amacy is gone in less than a decade the far east has jumped to the front and now nov Is producing nine tenths of the rubber of the world in the late sixties just when the first experiments with the automobile were under tinder way an englishman H A wickham who had spent much time in brazil conceived the idea that rubber plants could be grown on plantations securing a k commission from the oie india government he boxed bored up op thousands of seeds chartered a derelict ship up the amazon and started for india the first trees grew at ar in issa and that same year the first experiments in tapping began |