| Show natures nature adjustment while hot water bottles and automobile tires are made from rubber produced in ninny parts parta of the world use of the latex of the rubber trees was well known to the th e amazonian indians ine long before the time of the first white man to navigate the amazon according rr to doctor dahlgren famous ethnologist despite the fact that rubber la Is in no 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 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 bustle e that south america having lost rubber robber gained through introduction of the coffee tree from europe coffee has hag become the full equal of rubber in economic er importance i |
