Show natures Nil uret adjustment while hot water bottles and automobile tires are made from rubber produced in many parts of the world use of the latex of the r rubber abber trees was well known to alic amazonian indians long before the time of the barst white man to navigate the amazon according to doctor dallgren famous ethnologist despite the fact that rubber Is in DO sense a food its importance to mankind Is so great that it deserves honorable mention among the many vegetable products which were unknown to the old world prior to tile the discovery of america by columbus columan i the rubber tree wn was q discovered along the amazon states doctor dahlgran Dahlgr cn but is little grown there today it seems poetic justice that south america having lost rubber gained through introduction of the coffee tree from europe Kii rope coffee lias has become the full equal cual of rubber in ero economic importance |