Show natures nature 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 rubber trees was well known to the A amazonian indians long before the time of the first white man to navi ato the amazon according to doctor doctor dahlgren famous ethnologist despite the fact that rubber Is in no do sense a food its importance to mankind Is so great that it lc sevea honorable mention among the many vegetable products which were unknown to the old world prior to the discovery of america by columbus the rubber tree was discovered along the amazon states doctor dahlgren but Is little grown there today it seems poetic justice that south america having lost rubber gained through introduction of the coffee tree from durone coffee has haa become the full equal of rubber in economic importance |