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but, with the cutting out of catch crops, the area under it has fallen 

 to the fourth place. Both the acreage and export figures show this 

 fall. 



Average price of flake tapioca us 

 Year. Acrex. declared on export from Malacca. 



)S.) 



The decrease of the crop has come at a time when prices have 

 fallen very considerably ; and it is a matter for congratulation that the 

 Malacca estates in recent years have not only reaped the advantage 

 of a return from the catch crop, but they reaped it when the return 

 was good. 



Along with the decrease in the growing of tapioca has come an 

 enormous and most striking decrease in pig-raising. The following 

 are the figures for the excess of the exports from Malacca territory 

 of pigs over and above the imports. 



Excess Exports over hnports. 



1909 ..- ••• 21,564 animals 



1910 ... ... 13,925 



1911 ••■ ... 7,640 



1912 ... ... 2,977 



1913 ..• ... 106 



The pigs used to go to feed the tin-mining towns chiefly, and also 

 the adjacent parts of the Federated Malay States. They were raised 

 by squatters who were allowed to establish themselves chiefly in the 

 coconut plantations, and there, to fatten their swine with the 'ampas' or 



"■In this year under the Ciown Lands Ordinance, 1886, the alienation of Crown Land for 

 tapioca was stopped ; but the use of tapioca as a catch crop for more permanent crops was not 

 prevented. 



